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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.

Provenance

From 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.

CONDITION

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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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