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LOT 1518
Mitanni Faience Cylinder Seal with Man and Beast
CIRCA 1400 B.C.
3/4 in. (1.6 grams, 21 mm).
Cylindrical seal with a standing, robed figure wearing a headdress, before him a standing ibex with curved horns, facing back; supplied with a museum-quality impression. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a late Warwickshire numismatic collector, his collection formed from the early 1980s.
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