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LOT 1126
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Group
13TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
1 5/8 - 3 3/8 in. (187 grams total, 42-87 mm).
Comprising lanceolate, triangular, barbed-and-tanged and other types. [21]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1990s.
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Old Babylonian Alabaster Cylinder Seal
Early 2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
With frieze of robed figures in procession; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 1.16 grams, 14 mm
Ex Cotswold collection, UK, 1980-1990. Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and 1990s. -
Bactrian Bronze Stamp Seal
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Formed as three nude male figures each with one hand to the mouth and the other covering the anus; with vertical bar handle and ring finial. 99 grams, 54 mm
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Western Asiatic Stone and Other Mixed Artefact Group
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £33
Including terracotta tile, vase and jar fragments, tripod vessel and other items. 1.7 kg total, 3.1-14.2 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
