Near Eastern faience rolling stamp
Elamite Period circa 1st. Millennium BC
Originally blue but now faded to white
Showing a male figure brandishing a sword with a sphinx standing facing him
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Near Eastern Bronze age probably Ur III period Clay Cuneiform tablet fragment inscribed with administrative text on one side as shown
2100- 2000 BC
68 X 31 mm
$150
Clay Cuneiform foundation cone for the war god Ningirsu. This cone records the dedication of a temple by Gudea of Lagash
Used by Sumerians and other Mesopotamian cultures beginning in the third millennium BC, clay nails, also referred to as dedication or foundation nails, were inscribed with cuneiform and embedded into walls to serve as evidence that the temple or building was the divine property of the god to whom ...click for details