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LOT 1325
Neo Babylonian Stone Duck Weight
8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C. OR LATER
6 1/4 in. (3.19 kg, 16 cm).
With two broad ovoid wings, the head resting along the spine; pierced through the neck.
ProvenanceFrom an important collection formed before 1988.
Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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Western Asiatic Bronze Dish
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Hemispherical in section with rolled rim. 58 grams, 80 mm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. -
Akkadian Haematite Cylinder Seal with Presentation Scene
Late 3rd-early 2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
With incuse frieze depicting a standing robed figure with one leg and one arm extended towards a supplicant in floor-length garment offering a bird in both hands towards the first figure; sun-disc above the bird's head; third standing figure in flounced garment behind the supplicant. 15 grams, 26.6 mm
From a Scottish private collection, Perthshire, 1990s.
About half the surface of the seal has been left blank; this was probably intended to be inscribed with a cuneiform text. -
Mixed Ancient Necklace Bead Group
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £598
Comprising a quantity of lapis lazuli, glass and stone beads, including some larger collared tubular beads and a floral bead. 66 grams total, 2-46 mm
From a bead collection formed in the 1990s.
