Ancient clay nail foundation peg with cuneiform

Modeled in clay, incised with cuneiform, purportedly the clay nail of Gudea, Guvernor of Lagash, c. 2120 BCE. 6"L. Provenance: Purchased from Renee Kovacs in 2000. Condition: repaired crack to undersi

A Sumerian, 2190 - 2000 B.C., terracotta foundation cone (clay nail) with 2/3's of the body having cuneiform text. Dicoidal shaped head with wide body that tapers to a point. The dedication text has b

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, reign of Gudea of Lagash, ca. 2144 to 2124 BCE. A fine hand-built foundation cone with roughly three-quarters of its conical body wrapped in cuneiform text. The body ta

Ancient Near East, Sumeria, ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. A cone shaped clay tablet with incised cuneiform around its body. The top of the tablet has a flat "nail head" below which the body tapers to

Ca. 2000 BC An ancient Sumerian temple foundation cone of clay with a flat base on the broadside and a rounded tip on the opposite side. The body inscribed with vertical lines of cuneiform script. The

Circa 2100 BC An ancient Sumerian foundation cone dating to the Second Dynasty of Lagash, Reign of Gudea, 2141 BC to 2122 BC. As is typical, this cone (or nail) shaped clay 'tablet' is incised with cu

Babylonian Clay Cuneiform Tablet ,Period: ca. 2200-2000 B.C. clay tablet of a rectangular form with planar peripheries and slightly convex faces. The tablet imprinted with thirteen lines of cuneiform

A Mesopotamian cuneiform clay foundation brick inscribed for Nebuchadnezzar II Neo Babylonian, circa 604-562 B.C. The brick impressed with six complete and one partial line of cuneiform with the stan

Ancient Cuneiform Clay Tablet, Babylonian, South Iraq, 1700 BC

Ancient Cuneiform Clay Tablet, S. Mesopotamia

Ancient Cuneiform Clay Tablet, Babylonian

Sumeria, Ur III, 1976 BCE, dated to month 1, year 6 of the rein of King Amar-Suen. Clay "biscuit" used as receipt in the transaction of a loan of silver. Some of the earliest recorded writing of manki

Ancient Old Babylonian Cuneiform Clay Accountants Tablet Ca. Late 2nd Millennium BC. Clearly cut with reed into the clay; inscribed with a record for accounting purposes. Faircondition. Unfired and br

Mesopotamia, probable Sumeria, ca. 1800-600 BCE. This is a foundation cone/nail with cuneiform writing around the top. Prior to fragmentation, it most likely would have had a flat or pointed base and

declaration of his deeds and power, on a large cuneiform clay barrel [city of Larsa, Ancient Sumer (near modern Sankarah, Iraq), 1785-78 BC.] Clay barrel, with a flat base and rounded top open at cent

Ancient Near East Neo-Babylonian Style Clay Temple Foundation Brick. Size: 8.25'' x 5.5'' x 1.25'' (21 x 14 x 3 cm). Together with a Near Eastern Assyrian style cylinder seal stone. Size: 1.25'' x .5'

A nice Ur III clay cuneiform tablet, c. 2100 – 2000 BC, with eight lines of text on one side and ten lines on the other, eight of which with a cuneiform line of text. The characters are well impress

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, city of Lagash, Neo-Sumerian period, reign of Gudea of Lagash, ca. 2144 to 2124 BCE. A nice pair of hand-built clay foundation cones with tapering conical bodies

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Old Babylonian Period, ca. 2000 to 1600 BCE. A trio of cuneiform tablets, also known as biscuits, each partially translated. One is an account of fields in the town of

Ancient Near East, southern Mesopotamia, Babylon, Old Babylonian period, ca. 1900 to 1600 BCE. A hand-built clay tablet with slightly convex faces and peripheries. The tablet contains an administrativ

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Middle Babylonian Period, ca. 1595 to 1155 BCE. A trio of hand-built terracotta administrative tablets with rectangular forms, slightly-rounded peripheries, and convex

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, city of Lagash, Neo-Sumerian Period, reign of Gudea of Lagash, ca. 2144 to 2124 BCE. A lovely pair of hand-built clay foundation cones of conical forms bearing t

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, Neo-Sumerian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, dated to the reign of Shu-Sin, ca. 2037 to 2029 BCE. A hand-built clay administrative tablet of bulky form bearing 11 f

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, reign of Gudea of Lagash, ca. 2144 to 2124 BCE. A fine pair of hand-built terracotta foundation cones with roughly-three-quarters of their conical bodies wrapped in ide