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LOT 1310
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. [No Reserve]
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.
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