THE UPPER PART OF AN EARLY DYNASTIC CLAY ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENT, with typically rounded corners, five columns of text, the reverse uninscribed, concerning barley and fields, circa 2500 B.C., 3 7/8in. (9.8cm.) across; an almost complete foundation cone of Gudea, ruler of Lagash, tip missing, bearing 14 lines of text, commemorating the building of the great gate Esurra, reign of Gudea (2141-2122 B.C.), 6 7/8in. (17.4cm.) long; and another foundation cone of Lipit-Ishtar, 1934-1924 B.C., small chips, 4¼in. (10.8cm.) long (3)