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LOT 1163
Sumerian Bone Cylinder Seal
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 in. (4.42 grams, 24 mm).
With frieze in two registers depicting running animals, facing figure with arms raised and other items; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
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.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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Western Asiatic Stone Implement
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Square in section with segmented body and forked end; possibly a yarn-winding tool. 50 grams, 10.6 cm
with Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983. Ex private North American collection. London private collection, 2016. -
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection
13th-9th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £152
Comprising large triangular and leaf-shaped types with one barbed example. 225 grams total, 94 - 158 mm
Ex London art market, 1980-1990s. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
One series of arrowheads seem to belong to the category of lanceolate head and rounded shoulders from the category Type V, i.e. triangular arrowheads with rounded or angular midrib. Some other arrowheads seem to be a subcategory of subtype A of Khorasani but longer. -
Syro-Hittite Bronze Helmetted Figure
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Modelled as a standing nude figure wearing a tall conical helmet, arms pulled behind the back and forming two lugs. 76 grams, 93 mm
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
