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LOT 0200
Middle Assyrian Stone Cylinder Seal
1400-900 B.C.
1 1/2 in. (8.81 grams, 39 mm).
With frieze in two registers: above - opposed ibexes with frond between their chests, rosette above their rumps; below - geese in a landscape with vegetation; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
Provenance
From the collection of the late S, London, UK, 1970-2000.
Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the 1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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