3rd-2nd millennium BC. A pillow-shaped clay tablet with cuneiform text to both large faces, one side with a grid for the text; possibly an apprentice's practise piece. 285 grams, 10.2cm (4"). 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. 10325-166495.[No Reserve]