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LOT 0210
Large Sumerian Stone Cylinder Seal
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 3/8 in. (56 grams, 34 mm).
With frieze in two registers; above: ibexes with raised heads drinking water from a rounded vessel mounted on a raised frame; below: repeating pattern of vessels with water flowing from their mouths; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
ProvenanceFrom the property of late Mr SM, London, UK, 1970-1990s, thence by descent.
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.
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