REIGN OF IBBI-SIN, 2028-2004 B.C.

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A MESOPOTAMIAN UR III HAEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL WITH INSCRIPTION
REIGN OF IBBI-SIN, 2028-2004 B.C.
Cut with presentation scene, the worshipper wearing a robe with fringed ends, the leading goddess wearing a flounced robe and multiple-horned headdress before a deified king who sits on a dais with feet on raised step, a star disc and crescent in the field, with a finely cut cuneiform inscription to Ibbi-Sin, King of Ur, 1 1/8in. (2.8 cm.) high; six further Old Akkadian, Ur III and Old Babylonian stone cylinder seals, 2300-1600 B.C., 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) high max.; an Assyrian clay brick of King Shalmanaser I, the square brick with foundation inscription: "Palace of Shalmanaser, King of Kish, son of Adad-Nirari, King of Kish", two corners damaged, reign of Shalmanaser, circa 1300 B.C., 12¾ in. (32.5 cm.) sq.; a Mesopotamian clay foundation cone of Lipit-Ishtar, with cuneiform inscription, the text enumerating the king's titles and recording the building of a namgarum (probably a pit or well) in the court house, after he had "established justice in the lands of Sumer and Akkad", some salt encrustation, reign of Shalmanaser I, circa 1300 B.C., 4¼ in. (10.7 cm.) long; another similar, 4 in. (10.2 cm.) long; an Ur III clay cuneiform tablet, part of a list of animals (lambs and goats) and provisions in drink for the service of certain gods on various occasions, circa 2100 B.C., 3 in. (7.5 cm.) long approx.; a fragment from a Mesopotamian alabaster shallow dish with the lower left corner of an inscription, circa 2500-2200 B.C., 2½ in. (6.4 cm.) across; a Mesopotamian shell pouring vessel, the shell's central columella removed and the interior ground smooth, Early Dynastic, mid-late 3rd millennium B.C., 6 in. (15.2 cm.) long; a glazed composition cosmetic palette, the shallow square palette with five circular depressions, 2nd millennium B.C, 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) sq.; two Mesopotamian banded agate beads, a bronze biconical bead or weight, a small stone bull's head, a miniature bronze animal pendant and a string of beads, all 3rd-1st millennium B.C.; four Roman cornelian intaglios, three in ring settings, and three further rings; and a hollow terracotta protome of a bovine animal reclining, 4¾ in. (12 cm.) long (a lot)

來源

Collection of the late Wing Commander A. B. Fanstone; inherited by his son, the present owner. Some items acquired from Edward Jawahery in Baghdad in the 1930s. Correspondence including a report by Sidney Smith (Keeper of Assyrian and Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum) dated 4 November 1939, a bill of sale dating to the 1930s and a letter from Professor W. Lambert dated 12 February 1975 accompany this lot.

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拍品專文

For shell pouring vessels, cf. Exhibition catalogue, Art of the First Cities, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, p. 401, no. 291a.
See illustration on following page.