146 Results
Lot 636
ARCHAEOLOGY. NEAR EAST. Mesopotamia. Uruk III. Proto-cuneiform tablet, inscribed on one side with text in cuneiform and pictographic characters detailing the distribution of cereals, fish and other goods (3200–3000 BC). Terracotta. Length 9.2 cm. Bears on the reverse a label with Christie's auction reference. Published in Monaco, S. (2016). Archaic cuneiform tablets from private collections (CUSAS 31, no. 96). CDL Press. Registered in the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), no. P416126 (https://cdli.earth/P416126).
Starting price
5.000 €
Lot 638
ARCHAEOLOGY. NEAR EAST. Mesopotamia. Early Dynastic IIIA. Fara Period. Cuneiform sales tablet with inscriptions recording the acquisition of a field and the payments made by the buyer in a pre-monetary barter system, using copper, bread, oil, soup rations and fish, among other goods. The transaction took place during the tenure of the official Abzukidu, and among the witnesses was Inim-nizi (2600–2500 BC). Terracotta. Length 10 cm.
Starting price
4.000 €
Lot 650
ARCHAEOLOGY. EGYPT. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. Theban funerary cone belonging to Amenhotep, with hieroglyphic inscription of confused layout (1466–1388 BC). Terracotta. Length 23.5 cm. With an inscribed inventory number. Same stamp illustrated in the reference work by Davies & Macadam (1957), A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones (no. D.M. 374), Oxford; and comparable to the example held in the World Museum, Liverpool (inv. no. 1973.1.339). Similar examples to this piece were found in 2009 by the University of Brussels during excavations of tomb C.3 in Western Thebes, where more than one hundred cones of this type were recovered.
Starting price
1.200 €
Lot 660
ARCHAEOLOGY. ROME. Possibly Late Roman ring with an openwork filigree hoop at the centre, decorated with scrolls and granules, and bordered by plain and twisted-wire bands. The bezel is composed of concentric bands of twisted wire, chain and globules, set with a conical almandine garnet cabochon (3rd century AD or later). Gold and garnet. Length 21.9 mm. Weight 5.87 g. With losses to some globules, and one side of the hoop is detached from the bezel due to a broken solder joint.
Starting price
1.800 €
