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LOT 1026

Estimate
GBP (£) 400 - 600
EUR (€) 460 - 690
USD ($) 540 - 800

MESOPOTAMIAN STONE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
7/8 in. (6 grams, 22 mm).

Engraved with a procession of human figures together with columns of text; drilled vertically for suspension.

PROVENANCE:
From an important London, UK, collection, 1970-1990.
Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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