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LOT 1207
Akkadian Cylinder Seal with Worship Scene
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
1/2 in. (4.24 grams, 14 mm).
Black stone with a figure wearing a long robe and horned cap, holding a sceptre, other hand raised in greeting to a central male figure seated on a bull; behind a bearded male figure wearing long robes and horned cap and carrying a sceptre; behind a panel with four rows of cuneiform text. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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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