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LOT 1501
Old Babylonian Alabaster Cylinder Seal
EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
1/2 in. (1.16 grams, 14 mm).
With frieze of robed figures in procession; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
ProvenanceEx Cotswold collection, UK, 1980-1990.
Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and 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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