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LOT 1283
Neo-Babylonian Chalcedony Stamp Seal with King
CIRCA 7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C. OR LATER
1 in. (11.61 grams, 26 mm).
Tongue-shaped in profile with incuse image of a worshipping king before an altar, crescent above.
ProvenanceFrom a collection of a Devonshire, UK, gentleman established from the mid 1990s.
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Achaemenid Blue Glass Bead Necklace String
6th-4th century B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £104
Restrung designer necklace string of fusiform, oblate and other types with annular pendant centrepiece. 7 grams, 38 cm
London, UK, collection, 2000s. -
South Arabian Alabaster Head of a Female
3rd-1st century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
Sculptured female head, angular nose with straight ridge, slightly rounded cheeks and triangular chin, large sockets for inlaid eyes, grooved eyebrows and high ears, long locks of hair visible below the ears; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 1.96 kg total, 18.5 cm including stand
UK collection, 1990s. Acquired on the UK art market, before 2000. Private collection, Mr M.V., a London-based businessman.
In the Arabian funerary sculptures of the period, the tops of the heads are usually cut off flat just above the hair line and left roughly tooled. The cut was due to the necessity of fitting them into niches of 'house shrines'. Large stelae with niches containing such heads were found in the Timna Cemetery. -
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection
13th-9th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £152
Comprising large triangular and leaf-shaped types with one barbed example. 225 grams total, 94 - 158 mm
Ex London art market, 1980-1990s. 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.
One series of arrowheads seem to belong to the category of lanceolate head and rounded shoulders from the category Type V, i.e. triangular arrowheads with rounded or angular midrib. Some other arrowheads seem to be a subcategory of subtype A of Khorasani but longer.
