Large Proto-Sumerian Pictoral Clay Cuneiform Tablet, c. 4th-3rd Millennium B.C.

(Large Cuneiform Tablet)

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Item No.
36.37646
Culture
Proto-Sumerian, c. 4th-3rd Millennium B.C. 
Item Details.
Pillow-shaped with incised grid to the broad faces, dense cuneiform text in the columns with impressed pellet numerals.

Various collections of cuneiform tablets form a corpus of texts mainly of an administrative nature, from the Uruk III and Ur III periods. The proto-cuneiform, as a system of proto-writing, emerged in Mesopotamia ca.3500-3200 BC, during the Uruk period.

Provenance: Private collection, acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s; thence by descent.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13179-249318.

Literature:Cf. Monaco, S., Archaic Cuneiform Tablets from Private Collections, CUSAS 31, Cornell, 2016, for other comparable tablets.

Size
8.9 cm L - 3 1/2 inches
Material
Clay 
Condition
Some damage, otherwise intact 
Categories
Cuneiform & Tablets
Price.
US$ 9000
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