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Lot 376

[CUNEIFORM]. A Babylonian cuneiform clay brick or tablet in...

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[CUNEIFORM]. A Babylonian cuneiform clay brick or tablet in the 6th year of Darius, B.C.E. 516. Inset into a small octavo book finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with 10 manuscript leaves on heavy stock, text in red and black, several die?cut leaves with window frame showing the brick. The leaves describe the history of the cuneiform tablet as being a record of the amount of fruit that was in the storehouses found at Babylon.