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LOT 1233
Old Babylonian Haematite Cylinder Seal
EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
5/8 in. (3.019 grams, 16 mm).
With frieze of three facing figures wearing long robes and headdress, crescent and other objects in the field.
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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