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LOT 1320
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.
ProvenanceEx '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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LOT 1320
Old Babylonian Black Stone Cylinder Seal with Presentation Scene
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
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Mesopotamian Red Stone Cylinder Seal
3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £702
Drum-shaped with frieze of crouching worshippers, each with arms raised and hair worn in a braid behind the head; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 30 grams, 24 mm
Ex S. collection, London, UK, 1980s-2000s. -
Western Asiatic Terracotta Boar Figure
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
Modelled in the round, boar on a rectangular base with exaggerated crest and pellet eyes. 66 grams, 72 mm
Ex London, UK, gallery, 1971-early 2000s. London, UK, collection. -
Western Asiatic Gold and Carnelian Bead Necklace
1st millennium B.C. and laterEstimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
Comprising a graduated group of tabular carnelian beads with interstitial collars of gold granulation and some moulded glass hexagonal tabular-shaped beads; centrepiece a biconvex oval with speckled surface; restrung. 56.8 grams, 42.5 cm long
Ex property of the late Mr S.M., London, UK, 1970-1990s, thence by descent. Accompanied by a previous cataloguing card.
