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LOT 1296

Kassite Mottled Stone Cylinder Seal with Inscription

14TH-12TH CENTURY B.C.

4 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (36 grams total, 12.1 x 9.1 cm).

With frieze depicting a winged ram beneath the 'star of Ishtar' with four columns of cuneiform text; mounted on a reinforced card with impression and collector's handwritten notes. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Antonovitch Gallery, Paris, 1978.
Chesnes Gallery, Lyon, 1982.
Acquired at Drouot, Paris, 2022.
Private collection, London.
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.

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LOT 1296

Kassite Mottled Stone Cylinder Seal with Inscription

Sold for (Inc. bp): £416

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