Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet
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Object number
AR3262A
| Object: |
Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet
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| Material: |
Clay.
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| Period: |
Late 3rd to early 1st Millenium BC.
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| Description: |
Small clay tablet with Sumerian text on the front and back. The tablet mentions "é-gal" in Sumerian, which means "palace". Even if the text has not yet been fully translated, the word suggests that the content was important at the time.
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| Dimensions: |
6.3cm x 4.5cm.
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| Condition: |
Professionally restored from a few fragments. Overall very good condition.
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| Provenance: |
Acquired by us in 2021 on the German art market. Previously in the German private collection of Helge Deikner (1926-2021). Acquired into the collection in the 1970s or earlier. It was passed on that this piece was a gift from the archaeologist Dr. Julius Jordan. He was in charge of the German excavation campaign in Uruk from 1912 to 1913 and from 1928 to 1931, and was also entrusted with other archaeological and conservational tasks in Iraq in the 1920s and 1930s. Together with the certain Uruk origin of a sister piece from the same collection (our object number AR3262B), it can be assumed that this cuneiform tablet is also a find from Uruk. An enormous body of early writings has been recovered there and preserved since the 1850s. Not all texts have been deciphered and translated by a long shot. |
| Authenticity: |
We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of every artefact, all items are subject to our lifetime return policy on authenticity.
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