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.

CONDITION

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