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LOT 1132
Akkadian Cylinder Seal with Worship Scene
LATE 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3/4 in. (8.08 grams, 18 mm.).
Haematite with a bearded male figure wearing a kilt and cap, in front a bearded male deity wearing a kilt and horned cap, holding a sceptre and standing on a reclining male figure; to the back a female in long robes and hand held in front of mouth; rectangular panel with four rows of cuneiform text. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From an important North London collection formed in the late 1980s.
From a collection acquired from various auction houses in the UK.
From the estate of Mr R.W., a private Wiltshire, UK, collector; thence by descent.
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