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A Neo-Assyrian inscribed gypsum fragment

Item Details

Description

A Neo-Assyrian inscribed gypsum fragment
Circa 9th-7th Century B.C.
Carved with three registers of text, The first line with two signs translating; 'to turn [something] into/to restore', the second line with possibly the word for 'ruler', which occurs a number of times in Sennacherib inscriptions, 16cm x 10.5cm
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Rev. Chester Newell Righter (1824-1856), Parsippany, NJ and Andover, MA, acquired in Nineveh, 1856; thence by continuous descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21st April 2021, lot 29.

Published:
J.M. Russell, 'A Bit of a Bull and a Bit of a Puzzle,' in I.L. Finkel and St J. Simpson, eds., In Context: The Reade Festschrift, 2020, pp.274-280.