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LOT 0195
Old Anatolian Stone Cylinder Seal
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/2 in. (72.1 grams, 40 mm).
With frieze depicting a facing anthropomorphic figure placed tête-bêche with another; 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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