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LOT 1256
Neo-Assyrian Stone Cylinder Seal with Worship Scene
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. OR LATER
1 1/2 in. (15.5 grams, 38 mm).
With a male attendant kneeling on each side of a sacred tree, winged sun disc above; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
Provenance
From the collection of the late S, London, UK, 1970-2000.
Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the 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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