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THBMesopotamian Terracotta Cuneiform Tablet, ex-Bonhams
Lot 39
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Artemis Fine Arts
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Louisville, CO 80027
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Ancient Near East, Sumer, Third Dynasty of Ur, ca. 2080 to 2030 BCE. A petite terracotta administrative tablet with rounded lateral, upper, and lower sides, and slightly convex faces. The tablet bears twelve lines of inscribed cuneiform text which is formed by impressing a sharpened reed or stick into the still-wet clay just before firing. The translation of this tablet records a receipt for a shipment of barley. Cuneiform was a generally pictographic style of writing in its infancy, though it became a more abstract style of letter-based script around the 3rd millennium BCE. Size: 1.125" W x 1.125" H (2.9 cm x 2.9 cm).
This tablet and five others hammered for GBP 1,500 ($1,937) at Bonhams, London, Knightsbridge Antiquities Auction (May 8, 2013, lot 147 [middle left]): https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20667/lot/147/?category=grid
Provenance: private Houston, Texas, USA collection; ex-Bonhams, London, Knightsbridge Antiquities Auction (May 8, 2013, part of lot 147); ex-Joseph Klein collection, formed in New York, New York, USA between 1941 and 1980, thence by descent
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#132906Surface wear and minor abrasions commensurate with age, very minor nicks to faces and peripheries, with light fading to some cuneiform characters, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits throughout.Condition
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