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LOT 1066
Old Akkadian Stone Cylinder Seal
CIRCA 2340-2200 BC B.C.
7/8 in. (9.07 grams, 22 mm).
Engraved with a Master of Animals grappling with quadrupeds, a star in the field; drilled vertically for suspension.
ProvenanceFrom an important London, UK, collection, 1970-1990.
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.
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