Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2730. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[Epigraphy] MESOPOTAMIA. Terra-cotta Cuneiform tablet. Old Akkadian period, circa 2350-2150 BC. 38mm x 38mm. Clay tablet with eight line inscription, translation provided as “1 kor, 2 bushels of barley for coarse bread, Abba has given from the field of Ningalnundu; 2 bushels of barley for coarse bread E-mi has given, X-nig-du”. Gray clay, central perforation, by which the tablet would have been attached as a seal to the baskets of grain which had been collected either as tax or donation. Choice condition, one small void has been filled in. Nice clear cuneiform text.

From the Dr. Robert B. Beckett Collection.