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LOT 0991
Greek and Phoenician Lead Weight Collection
LATE 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
3/4 - 4 1/2 in. (1.45 kg total, 2.0-11.3 cm).
Including examples displaying zoomorphic designs, lettering and other motifs. [11, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Simmons Gallery, London E11, UK, in the 1990s.
From a North London collection.
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Elamite Silver Horse Harness Pendant Pair
3rd millennium B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
With repoussé motifs composed of conical and dome shapes within pellet borders, tubular suspension loops above. 50 grams total, 11-11.2 cm
London, UK, gallery; 1971-early 2000s. -
Western Asiatic Blue Glass Bead Necklace String
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £33
Restrung; composed of opaque and translucent glass beads in various shades of blue, graduated in size and including spherical, tubular, disc and other types. 7.41 grams, 43 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Uruk Black Stone Cylinder Seal with Seated Figure
Circa 2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Featuring three vertical grooves separating the seal into three separate panels, each drilled with a female figure seated beside pots; drilled vertically for suspension. 15.7 grams, 22 mm
From an important London, UK, collection, 1970-1990. 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.
