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Description : 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
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