Lot 0187

Mesopotamian Pictographic Tablet

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Pictographic Tablet Fragment: 4th-3rd millennium B.C. A fragment belonging to a pictographic tablet, bearing impressed pictograms to one face. 30.87 grams, 43 mm (1 5/8 in.). Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property

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Sumerian Clay Pictographic Tablet, c. 3000 B.C.: Title: Sumerian Clay Pictographic Tablet, c. 3000 B.C. Date/Period: Sumerian, c. 3000 B.C. Dimension: 5.7 cm L - 2 1/4 inches Material: Clay Provenance: Provenance: Collection Mr. A.A. London, acquire

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Uruk Proto-Cuneiform Tablet Pair: Late Uruk Period, 3500-3100 B.C. A pair of proto-cuneiform pictographic tablet sections, showing clear markings and symbols. 5.98 grams total, 18-30 mm (3/4 - 1 1/8 in.). Acquired on the French art ma

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Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablet, 7 laborers & Barley: Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, Neo-Sumerian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, dated to the seventh year of the reign of Amar-Sin, ca. 2039 BCE. A hand-built pottery tablet of rectangular form with

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Translated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet, ex-Bonhams: Ancient Near East, Sumer, Third Dynasty of Ur, ca. 2080 to 2030 BCE. A clay tablet of a rectangular form with rounded sides, smooth faces, and a planar top and bottom. The tablet bears seventeen uneve

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Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablet: 2nd millennium B.C. A large pillow-shaped tablet with plano-convex cross-section, bearing dense cuneiform text to both faces. Cf. Liverani, M., Antico Oriente, Storia, societa' ed economia, Roma, 1988

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Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablet: 2nd millennium B.C. A bifacial, pillow-shaped clay tablet bearing multiple lines of cuneiform text to both faces. 30.27 grams, 41 mm (1 5/8 in.). Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the propert

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Rare Ancient Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablet .: Rare Ancient Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablet ,Ca. 2nd millennium B.C. pottery tablet untranslated, probably an administrative record, â€‹pottery tablet with impressed cuneiform writing covering bot

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Translated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet, ex-Bonhams: Ancient Near East, Sumer, Third Dynasty of Ur, ca. 2080 to 2030 BCE. A petite clay tablet with rounded sides and faces. The tablet bears thirteen lines of cuneiform text made by pressing a sharpened r

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A Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet, Ur III: A Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet, Ur III, c. 2100 BC, in hardened clay, the rectangular tablet with five beautifully incised lines of cuneiform text, the opposite side with a few partial lines remainin

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Mesopotamian Proto-Cuneiform Tablet Half: 4th millennium B.C. A cut half of a D-shaped ceramic proto-cuneiform tablet with impressed forms to both faces, possibly simple signs for numbers. 30.6 grams, 41 mm (1 5/8 in.) Specialised collection

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Translated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet, ex-Bonhams: **Originally Listed At $250** Ancient Near East, Sumer, Third Dynasty of Ur, ca. 2080 to 2030 BCE. A petite clay tablet with rounded sides and faces. The tablet bears thirteen lines of cuneiform text

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Translated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet, ex-Bonhams: **First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East, Sumer, Third Dynasty of Ur, ca. 2080 to 2030 BCE. A petite clay tablet of a rectangular form with rounded top, bottom, and peripheral edges and slightly co

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Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablet: A Mesopotamian Pottery Tablet with Cuneiform Writing. Writing on both sides, one side has 14 lines of writing. Tablets are written in two ancient languages, Sumerian and Akkadian, using a script calle

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Translated Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablet: Mesopotamia, present day Iraq/ Syria, ca 2000 BCE. In Greek, "Mesopotamia" means 'land between the rivers', and the term came to be applied to the land between the two great rivers, the Tigris and the

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Circa 3000 B.C. A ceramic pillow-shaped pictographic tablet, inscribed on one face with a seven-panelled pictographic grid, with a branch above the reverse inscribed with a branch and a motif containing two drilled circles. 42 grams, 69 mm (2 3/4 in.). Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992.Thence by descent to family members. 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. The collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate no.11335-190939. [A video of this lot is available to view on Timeline Auctions Website.]