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LOT 0205
Miniature Old Babylonian Lapis Lazuli Cylinder Seal with Seated Gods
EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
1/4 in. (0.23 grams, 7 mm).
Frieze of incuse seated figures in profile.
ProvenanceFrom an important collection formed before 1988.
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.
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LOT 0205
Miniature Old Babylonian Lapis Lazuli Cylinder Seal with Seated Gods
Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
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Western Asiatic Animal Collection
3rd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £444
Group of four carved stone animals comprising: two limestone reclining lions; a green glass lion with head turned, loop to the reverse, socket for attachment of a separate face panel; boar crouching with legs folded beneath the body. 23 grams total, 21-30 mm
Acquired in Europe in 2002. European private collection. -
Post Sassanian Cut Glass Bottle
6th-7th century A.D.Estimate: £600 - 800 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Squat in profile with nine facets to the body, broad shoulder and eight facets to the neck, chamfered rim. 197 grams, 84 mm
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. -
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Western Asiatic Bead Necklace
Circa 1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £26
Restrung, composed of white circular beads of stone, shell, and glass, including biconical, irregular and other types. 19.4 grams, 48 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar beads were found in the excavations of the royal tombs of Nimrud. Thousands of beads were discovered in the sarcophagi (for example those of Nimrud’s Queens) probably originally composed as wide collars with multiple strands.
