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LOT 1336
Mitanni Glazed Composition Cylinder Seal with Quadrupeds
CIRCA 1420-1300 B.C.
7/8 in. (1.78 grams, 22 mm).
With frieze of antelopes and a tree. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.021.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 617, for type.
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LOT 1336
Mitanni Glazed Composition Cylinder Seal with Quadrupeds
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Designer necklace comprising tubular and fusiform lapis lazuli beads. 30 grams, 58 cm long
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Aramaic Unrolled Lead Scroll with Magical Text
2nd-8th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Rectangular sheet-lead panel with twenty-nine lines of cursive text. 14 grams, 12.7 cm
Collected from 1970-1999. From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK. -
Western Asiatic Stone and Shell Bead Necklace
Circa 1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £20
Composed mainly of cream-coloured restrung stone and shell beads of amorphous, annular, spherical, barrel-shaped and other types. 19.3 grams, 48 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar beads were found during the excavations of the royal tombs of Nimrud. Thousands of beads were discovered in the sarcophagi, including those of Nimrud’s Queens; they probably originally formed part of wide collars with multiple strands.