A Mesopotamian terracotta cuneiform cylinder sold for £264,000, believed to be a world record for a cuneiform clay document. The Babylonian cylinder, circa 604-562 B.C. of barrel form with a central hole inscribed with two columns each composed of 18n lines of text for Nebuchadnezzar II King of Babylon recorded the restoration of the sun-god Shamesh in Sippur. The cylinder is from the collection of Dr Edgar Banks who was Field Director of the Babylonian Expedition and American Consul to Bagdad in 1937. More recently it was the property of a New England museum to whom it was gifted prior to 1990.
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