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Cappadocian Stone Cylinder Seal with Court Scene Cappadocian Stone Cylinder Seal with Court Scene Cappadocian Stone Cylinder Seal with Court Scene
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LOT 0240

Cappadocian Stone Cylinder Seal with Court Scene

CIRCA 2000-1900 B.C.

1 5/8 in. (21.9 grams, 40 mm).

Frieze including two standing attendants in flounced floor-length robes before a laden table and a seated figure in similar robes, the seated figure drinking from a vessel through a drinking pipe, behind him a stag with a small animal between its legs, a border of pellets above and below; supplied with a museum-quality impression.

Provenance

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seal from the Marcopoli Collection, California, 1984, pp.200-201, no.352.

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LOT 0240

Cappadocian Stone Cylinder Seal with Court Scene

Estimate £1,200 - 1,700€1,390 - 1,970 (for guidance only)$1,620 - 2,300 (for guidance only)

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