3rd millennium BC. A section of a clay tablet containing several columns of cuneiform script. 60.6 grams, 77mm (3"). Ex central London gallery; acquired on the UK art market in 1998; formerly from an old London collection formed before 1992; believed examined by the late 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 lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no. 10328-166503.[No Reserve]