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LOT 0290
Hittite Red Jasper Stamp Seal with Bird
CIRCA 1500-1300 B.C.
1 in. (12.8 grams, 24 mm).
Domed seal with transverse piercing, upper face with a floral border and schematic motifs, underside with a standing bird with an inscription(?) below; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
ProvenanceFrom an English private collection, 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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Assyrian Bronze Axehead with Cuneiform Inscription
8th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,120
Comprising a barrel-shaped socket with rounded collars and a hole to the rear to accept a mounting peg, a wedge-shaped blade with a stepped neck; incised cuneiform text on both faces of the blade and the socket; votive type. 141 grams, 94 mm
Private collection, acquired on the European art market in 2002. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13206-249182.
The royal inscriptions on weapons were common in Mesopotamia. Our blade, although younger, finds a parallel with an Assyrian cuneiform-inscribed bronze axe blade bearing the name of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari I, dating back to the reign of King Adad-Nirari I (1307-1275 BC) from Assyria, currently on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris. -
Mitanni Faience Cylinder Seal with Birds and Palm Tree
Circa 1400 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Cylinder with hatched borders, three standing birds facing back towards a standing figure, tree behind; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 1.8 grams, 23 mm
From a late Warwickshire numismatic collector, his collection formed from the early 1980s. -
Western Asiatic Gold Grape Pendant
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Formed as a domed disc with applied granules above and below. 0.35 grams, 10 mm
Ex private British collection, formed in the 1980s. Property of a West Northamptonshire, UK, gentleman.
