Large Bactrian Bifacial Stone Stamp Seal with Serpent and Ibex

CIRCA 2000 B.C.

2 in. (55 grams, 51 mm).

Carved chlorite bifacial seal with incuse image to each broad face: coiled serpent-body with facing beast-head; profile beast with forelegs folded beneath the body, long neck curved to the rear and head turned, holding a frond in the mouth and with another before the chest.

Provenance

Collected from 1969-1999.
From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.

Literature

Cf. Aruz, J., Art of the First Cities. The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New York, 2003, item 235, for beast imagery.

CONDITION

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