Thursday, 21 November 2019

Dealer Proffers 'Sone Erly Form of Writing'


Among the 155 objects being sold by antiquities (I use the term loosely) dealer 'ace-antiquities' (ancient-antiques (4102 - that's Simon Wicks, Hailsham East Sussex with 99.2% positive feedback),  David Knell has pointed out in an earlier comment on this blog this "EXTREMELY RARE ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN SONE (sic) TABLET EARLY FORM OF WRITING 2000BC", yours for just £650.00. Item location: Hailsham, East Sussex, United Kingdom. No mention of an export licence:
EXTREMELY RARE LARGE STUNNING ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN CARVED BLACK STONE TABLET, RECTANGLE (sic) SHAPED VERY EARLY FORM OFF (sic) SCRIPT BIBLICAL RARE ANCIENT WRITING, VERY ARE (sic) WITH INCREDIBLE DEATIL (sic) C2000 BC. PRIVATE c1970s CollectionX 6 X 9 CMS  LONG NO REAL DAMAGE LITTLE CHIPPING PRETTY PERFECT AS PHOTO. WILL SHIP THIS ITEM WORKD (sic) WIDE THANK YOU.
I do not know what the inscription says (if anything), but the drying cracks in the glue-and-slurry encrustation give it away more than anything. If this has been in private collections since the 1970s. it shows that there are not a few totally gullible people out there buying antiquities from folk such as this. No papers - Caveat emptor.

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1 comment:

  1. David Knell22 November 2019 at 06:51

    I do not know what the inscription says

    I wouldn't worry; it's total gibberish. Whoever created the fake didn't have a clue how to write real cuneiform but just cobbled a few characters together in a random mix of meaningless nonsense and pure fantasy.

    What is truly "STUNNING" is that anyone would actually buy such rubbish without knowing anything about cuneiform tablets and, as you say, without any proper indication of its licit provenance if it was real.

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