AKKADIAN CUNEIFORM ADMINISTRATIVE TABLET.
18TH CENTURY B.C. A ceramic pillow-shaped tablet with biconvex cross-section; displaying impressed cuneiform text to both broad faces and all four edges, an administrative document: a record of barley stocks from two small localities perhaps in the kingdom of Larsa and entrusted to administrators, the text written in Akkadian without a date. 81 grams, 69 mm (2 3/4 in.). Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992. Thence by descent to family members. 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.