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LOT 1122
Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal with Combat Scene
CIRCA 800 B.C.
1 1/2 in. (13.8 grams, 39 mm).
Design comprising two rearing gryphons within herringbone borders; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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