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LOT 0180
Cassite Silver Cylinder Seal Pair
CIRCA 13TH-12TH CENTURY B.C.
7/8 in. (7.53 grams, 22 mm).
A pair of hollow-formed silver cylinder seals comprising: the smaller with frieze of tall slender figures flanking an ankh symbol; the larger with facetted outer face featuring a standing female with raised arm, plaited hair and hatched skirt, a standing male with dagger(?), three panels of cuneiform text; the smaller seal able to fit within the larger.
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.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11639-199231.
Cf. similar in the collection of the British Museum, London, under accession no.1864,0609.4.
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LOT 0180
Cassite Silver Cylinder Seal Pair
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000€3,480 - 4,640 (for guidance only)$4,050 - 5,400 (for guidance only)
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