LOT 0172 Cuneiform Tablet, Offerings to the God Shulpa'e
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Dated circa 2054 BC. A rectangular administrative clay tablet with thirteen lines of cuneiform, accompanied by a copy of typed scholarly note by the late W.G. Lambert, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Clay tablet inscribed with 13 lines of Sumerian on obverse and reverse, the obverse being damaged. Administrative document recording quantities of barley and barley flour for offerings to the god Shul[pa'e], coming from the palace Ki'an. Dated to the 9th month of the 41st year of Shulgi, second king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, c. 2054 B.C., from Umma, a Sumerian town near the Gulf.' 18.9 grams, 31mm (1 1/4"). Ex central London gallery; acquired on the UK art market in 1992; examined by the late Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s; and accompanied by a copy of a typed and unsigned scholarly note by the late Professor. [No Reserve]
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