GRAND TOUR REPRODUCTION MESOPOTAMIAN CUNEIFORM TABLETS

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Old Babylonian Period, ca. 2000 to 1600 BCE. A pair of ceramic "biscuits" or tablets inscribed with dense lines of cuneiform text. The larger of the two is translated (

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

Early 2nd millennium B.C. Group of three fragments of pillow-shaped tablets with impressed cuneiform text. 154 grams total, 43-60 mm (1 3/4 - 2 3/8 in.). Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the

Early 2nd millennium B.C. Group of three fragments from pillow-shaped tablets with impressed text to one remaining face. 241 grams total, 38 - 86 mm (1 1/2 - 3 3/8 in.). Specialised collection of cune

An antique Etruscan ceramic Pyxis lidded vessel, a reproduction of the Grand Tour. The well detailed storage jar with a globular body, two handles, a low foot, a short neck, and a flared rim. The cent

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

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

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

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

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

3rd-2nd millennium B.C. A ceramic cuneiform tablet with a slightly curved profile, cuneiform text to both faces. 81 grams, 64 mm (2 1/2 in."). Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property o

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

2nd-1st millennium B.C. Pillow-shaped in form and displaying cuneiform text to both principal faces; repaired. 220 grams, 95 mm (3 3/4 in.). Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of

3rd-2nd millennium B.C. The majority of a sub-rectangular ceramic tablet with a lentoid-section body, bearing multiple lines of cuneiform text to both principal faces. 110 grams total, 68 mm (2 5/8 in

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East, Sumer, Third Dynasty or Ur, ca. 2080 to 2030 BCE. A petite clay tablet with rounded lateral, upper, and lower sides, and slightly convex faces. The tablet

Early 2nd millennium B.C. Pillow-shaped in form with cuneiform text in dense rows to both faces and one edge; partly absent. 66 grams, 56 mm (2 1/4 in.). Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the

3rd millennium B.C. A group of five clay tablet fragments of various shapes and sizes, each with cuneiform text to one or multiple faces. Cf. Chiriu, D., Ricci, P.C., Carbonaro, C.M., Nadali, D., ‘R

Ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform Tablet circa 1900 BC. Size 1 x 1 inch + case. Old Babylonian cuneiform tablet with Sumerian inscriptions. fragment. Provenance: Ex Private NYC Collection acquired in the

Circa 2nd millennium B.C. A group of five clay tablet fragments of various shapes and sizes, each with cuneiform text to one or multiple faces. 128 grams total, 25-76 mm (1 - 3 in.). Specialised colle

19th century A.D. A Grand Tour reproduction of an early Roman Imperial period hanging oil lamp in the British Museum, composed of a squat body with two nozzles, leaping lion bursting through acanthus

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Middle Babylonian Period, ca. 1595 to 1155 BCE. A trio of hand-built terracotta administrative tablets with rectangular forms, slightly-rounded peripheries, and convex

Ancient Near East, Southern Mesopotamia, Old Babylonian Period, ca. 1900 to 1600 BCE. A gathering of two large rectangular clay tablets with lightly rounded peripheries and slightly convex faces. Each

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East, Mesopotamian ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. Four pottery cuneiform tablets - known as "biscuits" - all translated. Cuneiform script is one of the oldest kn

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Old Babylonian period, ca. 1900 to 1700 BCE. A lovely gathering of four hand-built clay tablets that contain several lines of one of the earliest forms of structured wr