Schadenfreude is wedge-shaped:
This is a set of two near eastern old clay cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia. The first tablet (on the left) is a complete piece, with an inscription on both sides. It measures approx 58mm high x 54mm wide x 13mm deep. The second, slightly larger tablet, is clearly a fragment from a much larger piece. It is plain on one side and has a small amount of text on the other side and also depicts a head. It measures approx 85mm high x 82mm wide x 21mm deep. These tablets are part of a collection of tablets and clay figures purchased in 2013 from an antiquities dealer in Turkey.
This kind of antiquities appears to be a good line of business to be in, it looks like all you really need to get into it is a bit of imagination, a bit of a nerve, a bucket of clay (not even of the right kind), a pointy stick and a page out of a Turkish newspaper to wrap it in after you've sold it in a private listing. Because dealers in dugupcollectables will know that in that milieu, there's one born every minute.
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