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LOT 0184
Akkadian Cylinder Seal with Presentation Scene
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/8 in. (8.5 grams, 28 mm).
A stone cylinder seal with incuse design between bands: two standing bearded figures facing extending one arm each to a column with cruciform head; behind them standing on a raised dais with domed ornament, a winged dog-headed figure with an ear of wheat, a bearded nobleman in a hatched garment, a crowned figure in similar garment.
ProvenanceFrom an important family collection.
Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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