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LOT 1114
Sassanian Carnelian Eagle Gemstone
CIRCA 3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
3/8 in. (0.46 grams, 10 mm).
Eagle standing with wings folded, neck extended; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a Swiss gentleman formed in Europe from 1970-1980s; thence by descent from the family in London.
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late Babylonian Stone Cylinder Seal with Contest Scene
1000-800 B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £400
With incuse frieze depicting a winged male figure wearing a tall headdress and holding a khopesh hooked sword, one foot placed on the corpse of a goat or ram, grappling with a rearing bull-headed winged beast and gripping its raised foreleg; behind, a second winged male figure with a sceptre and raised club to strike the bull-headed beast from behind; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 32.6 grams, 40 mm
From the property of late Mr SM, London, UK, 1970-1990s, thence by descent. 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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Very Large Western Asiatic Stone Stamp Seal with Animal
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £222
Discoid in plan with tiered handle and transverse hole, with gusset to the upper face, chamfered shoulder; underside with intaglio image of a stag with legs bent beneath the body, objects in the field; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 109 grams, 49 mm
Collected from 1969-1999. From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.
