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LOT 1265
Mitannian Cylinder Seal with Hero Scene
EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 in. (14.1 grams, 26 mm).
Haematite with a robed figure with beard and cap facing a robed female(?) with hands raised, rosette between their faces and rings below; a tall winged figure grasping an ibex by the rear legs and a small human by one arm, above an advancing lion; a facing hero grasping the forelegs of a griffin with a kneeling figure between and winged solar disc above, chipped. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Rihani family collection, formed 1970-1980s.
From a collection acquired from various auction houses in the UK.
From the estate of Mr R.W., a private Wiltshire, UK, collector; thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. Collon, D., First Impressions. Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East, London, 2005, item 275, for type.
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