A Sumerian Clay Cuneiform Tablet
Sale 1273 - Antiquities & Ancient Art: Including Property from the Brummer Collection
Dec 5, 2023
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Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
A Sumerian Clay Cuneiform Tablet
Third Dynasty of Ur, Circa 22nd-21st Century B.C.
Height 1 3/4 inches (4.4 cm).
Property from the Collection of Curator and Scholar Sidney M. Goldstein
Provenance:
Ray Winfield Smith (1897-1982), prior to the 1970s.
Derek Content and Carl Berkowitz, New York, 1970s.
Gifted to Dr. Sidney Goldstein from the above, late 1970s.
Dr. Sidney M. Goldstein is widely considered one of the foremost scholars in the study of ancient glass. After working as a curator at the Corning Museum of Glass from 1973 to 1983, he served as Associate Director and Curator of Ancient and Islamic Art at the St. Louis Art Museum until his retirement in 2009. Dr. Goldstein has authored and co-authored numerous publications including Glass: from Sasanian antecedents to European imitations (2005), and Pre-Roman and early Roman glass in the Corning Museum of Glass (1979).
This Sumerian tablet written in cuneiform reads: "157 eme [part of a plow]; 126 points ["tooth"] of a hoe; 236 points [unspecified objects] for flattening the field; 180 hoes; [transmitted] Via Akalla."
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