LOT 442 MESOPOTAMIAN TERRACOTTA ADMINISTRATIVE CUNEIFORM TABLET
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Ca. 1900 BC A roughly rectangular-section ceramic tablet with rounded edges and corners, bearing cuneiform script to both faces in panels. This particular example contains lines separating cuneiform.Documents such as they were used or a multitude of things including administrative and accountacy.For reading:E. Sollberger, 'New Lists of the Kings of Ur and Isin', Journal of Cuneiform Studies 8, 1954, pp.135-6.A.H. Grayson, King List 2, 'K?niglisten und Chroniken' Reallexicon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archaeologie, Berlin, 1980, p. 90.K Lippincott (ed.), with Umberto Eco & E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Time, London, 1999, p.255.J Friberg, A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Manuscripts in the Sch?yen Collection: Cuneiform Texts I), New York, 2007, pp.233-236.Andrew George (ed.), Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions and Related Texts in the Sch?yen Collection (Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology, vol. 17, Manuscripts in the Sch?yen Collection, Cuneiform texts VI), Bethesda, 2011, text 100, pp.206-207, pl. LXXXV. Size: L:128mm / W:90mm; 465g Provenance: From the important collection of a London doctor A.R; passed by descent to his son; formerly acquired the 1980s on the UK art market.
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