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LOT 1320

Sold for (Inc. bp): £338

OLD BABYLONIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL WITH PRESENTATION SCENE
EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
1/2 in. (1.54 grams, 12 mm).

With frieze of figures in a courtly presentation scene.

PROVENANCE:
Ex 'S' collection, London, UK.
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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