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LOT 0903
Mesopotamian Cylinder Seal with Walking Women
4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3/4 in. (13.7 grams, 18 mm).
A drum-shaped stone cylinder seal with figural frieze; accompanied by an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder seal of red stone, 18 x 20 mm. Frieze of four walking women holding standards. Mesopotamia, c.3000 B.C. Condition fine.'
ProvenanceFrom an important family collection.
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.
Accompanied by an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 62.70.74, for similar.
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