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Western Asiatic Neo-Sumerian Ur III Field Plan Tablet

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Western Asiatic Ur III Cuneiform Tablet: Late 3rd millennium BC. A large part of pillow-shaped ceramic tablet fragment with bands of cuneiform text to one broad face and one edge. 238 grams, 85mm (3 1/2"). Ex Kinnard collection, Oxford, UK,

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Neo-Sumerian Ur III Cuneiform Tablet Fragment: 3rd millennium BC. A clay tablet fragment of irregular shape, bearing the remains of a cuneiform text. 50 grams, 60mm (2 1/4"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired in the 1970s. [No Reserve]

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Neo-Sumerian Ur III Cuneiform Tablet Fragment: 3rd millennium BC. A bifacial fragment from a ceramic pillow-shaped tablet, bearing cuneiform text and symbols to both faces. 16.4 grams, 41mm (1 1/2"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired in the

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Western Asiatic Cuneiform Tablet Fragment: 2nd millennium BC. A terracotta pillow-shaped tablet with impressed cuneiform text to the main face and upper edge, low-relief raised text to one side. 57.3 grams, 51mm (2"). Property of a London gent

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A very nice Ur III terracotta tablet, c. 2150 BC: A very nice Ur III terracotta tablet, c. 2150 BC, with extremely crisp lines of cuneiform text detailing an administrator's accounting of barley. 2 in x 1 1/2 in (3.8 x 5 cm). Displayed within a Riker

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Sumerian Ur III Clay Cuneiform Tablet: Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, Third Dynasty of Ur, year 2 of the reign of Ibbi-Sin (also Ibbi-Suen), ca. 2026 BCE. A hand-built clay tablet of rectangular form bearing rounded peripheries and

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A nice Ur III period administrative tablet: A nice Ur III period administrative tablet, c. 2119 - 1940 BC, detailing a transaction involving slave girls. One side with five lines and the opposite side with four, all the characters are beautiful

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Ur III Cuneiform School Tablet: 3rd millennium B.C. A sub-circular ceramic tablet, lentoid in section, with cuneiform text to one face bearing finely executed scribal work. 117 grams, 73 mm (2 7/8 in.). Specialised collection of cun

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Western Asiatic Early Dynastic Cuneiform Tablet: Early Dynastic IIIb, 2500-2334 BC. A ceramic pillow-shaped cuneiform tablet with an administrative account of sheep to both broad faces. From an old Adelaide, Australian collection, formed in the 1960

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Western Asiatic Macehead with Gods and Animals: Early Dynastic III, 2900 BC-2350 BC. A white fine grained stone macehead with vase-shaped body and pierced through the centre; to one side the lion-headed bird deity Imdugud with wings outstretched; t

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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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Mesopotamian Clay Cuneiform Tablet, Grain Receipt: Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, Neo-Sumerian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, dated to the reign of Shu-Sin, ca. 2037 to 2029 BCE. A hand-built clay administrative tablet of bulky form bearing 11 f

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A Western Asiatic gold lion-headed bracelet: A Western Asiatic gold lion-headed bracelet Circa 5th-4th Century B.C. The penannular hoop of round cross-section, each terminal formed of a naturalistic lion's heads, with applied linked chain, rope

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WESTERN ASIATIC TEMPLE BRICK INSCRIBED FOR NEBUCHADNEZZAR - WITH REPORT: Ca. 560 BC A terracotta temple foundation brick of Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II, rectangular with fourteen columns of cuneiform text mentioning the foundation of a temple by Nebuchadnezzar II. Tr

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Western Asiatic Neo-Sumerian Ur III Field Plan Tablet

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22nd-21st century BC. A large part of a ceramic double-sided pillow-shaped cuneiform tablet with a field plan. For similar tablet with the plan of Umma from the same period see the Louvre Museum, accession number AO 5677. 159 grams, 92mm (3 1/2"). From a London, UK, collection; acquired 1970s.