14th-13th century BC. A ceramic tablet fragment with low-relief cuneiform text in eight columns to the obverse, six to the reverse, one side inscribed.See Cornwall, P. B., ‘Two Letters from Dilmun’ in Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1952, pp. 137-145, for similar style tablets.125 grams, 69mm (2 3/4"). Part of a specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman; examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s; this small collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples.In general, the tablets contain lists of objects of the most varied character. Especially important are those with names of gods, kings, cities and countries. Very often the Mesopotamian scribes ordered the names in the lists according to some definite principle: for instance in a series of tablets from Nippur the scribes wrote down all the names of the gods of Nippur preceded by the determinative, while the foreign gods are listed in the last column without determinative. [No Reserve]

Fine condition.