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LOT 0932

Sold for (Inc. bp): £416

NEO BABYLONIAN BIFACIAL QUARTZ STAMP SEAL
CIRCA MID 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 in. (9.36 grams, 23 mm).

Rectangular-section tongue-shaped seal with suspension holes; to the underside, an incuse engraved scene of a standing figure in floor-length robe beside a grid or hurdle with trefoil finial; to one broad face, a similar figure in a fringed garment with one hand raised; supplied with a museum-quality impression.

PROVENANCE:
Ex West Country collection before 1992.

Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

CONDITION
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