Site Loader
Rock Street, San Francisco
  • Current Language:
  • fr
  • Select Language:

Das ist der Preis für die folgende Bewertung: Large Mesopotamian Clay Cuneiform Administrative Tablet, 2010



Beschreibung : Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic IIIa to IIIb, ca. 2500 to 2230 BCE. A wonderful and early cuneiform administrative tablet of an ovoid form with lightly-rounded peripheries, a slightly-convex obverse face, and a dramatically-convex verso. Sprawled across the tablet are roughly 132 delineated panels, each containing a record of barley disbursements to several named individuals, however, the names from this period are difficult to read. As the agricultural and trading networks of ancient Mesopotamia grew, farmers, merchants, and rulers realized they needed an effective means of tracking shipments and cargo across vast distances. Their solution, the writing system known as cuneiform, was created by impressing sharpened reeds or sticks into still-wet clay just before firing. Early variations of cuneiform used the rounded end of a stylus to create small holes along with the characters, in time this practice was eventually phased out. Size: 4.25 W x 4.1 H (10.8 cm x 10.4 cm). A stylistically-similar example of a somewhat larger size hammered for $86,500 at Sotheby's, New York Egyptian, Classical and Western Asiatic Antiquities auction (December 8, 2010, lot 84): Provenance: private Colorado, USA collection, ex-private California, USA collection, acquired in 1989 All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #143812
Preis: 2 490.00 USD 🔓Keine Kreditkarte nötig.
Schätzung (niedrig/hoch) : 6000 USD-8000 USD 🔓Keine Kreditkarte nötig.

Über das Lot Chargen- 74A
Titel : Large Mesopotamian Clay Cuneiform Administrative Tablet, EPOCHE : 2010
Condition report : Several areas of repair with small losses and light adhesive residue along break lines. Minor nicks and abrasions to faces and peripheries, with softening to some areas of cuneiform inscription, and encrustations along the verso. Light earthen deposits throughout.
Artemis Gallery, Auktionator, Louisville, US 🔓Keine Kreditkarte nötig.
Verkaufstitel : Ancient / Ethnographic / Americana
Verkaufsdatum : 11/07/2019 🔓Keine Kreditkarte nötig.
Auktionsreferenz : Live Sale

Sind Sie daran interessiert, ein Objekt zu bewerten? 

AfricartMarket Insights

Greifen Sie auf exklusive Informationen zu.Abonnieren Sie jetzt unseren Newsletter und entdecken Sie alle Neuheiten und unwiderstehliche Angebote.

Wir respektieren Ihre Privatsphäre. Kein Spam.