2050-2020 BC. A large clay administrative tablet with Sumerian script; accompanied by a handwritten and signed scholarly note by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham 1970-1993, which states: 'Clay tablet, 21.5x14cm. with three columns of Sumerian script on the obverse, two partly inscribed on the reverse: assembled from pieces, but only one corner missing. An administrative document from the 3rd Dynasty of Ur, c. 2050-2020 B.C.Gars(?)an. Large, and in a big clear hand.'; and a copy of a scholarly note by Dr. Manuel Ceccarelli of the University of Tübingen, Germany, which states: 'Monthly summarily of goods (e.g. animal, flour) disbursed by the chief administrator Adad-tillati of the city of GARšana (south Iraq). The tablet is dated to the third month (“month of the piglet feast”; may-june) of Šu-Sîn’s 7th year of reign (ca. 2030 BCE). Šu-Sîn (ca. 2037–2029 BCE) is the fourth king of the so-called Neo-Sumerian Empire, whose capital was the south Mesopotamian city of Ur.1.4 kg total, 22cm (8 3/4").Part of a specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman; examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s; this small collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples; accompanied by a copy of Professor Lambert’s and Dr. Manuel Ceccarelli's notes. [No Reserve]