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LOT 1400
Sumerian Clay Cylinder Seal with Wheel Pattern
3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/4 in. (6.32 grams, 30 mm).
With geometric pattern including a segmented octofoil, two vesica motifs with pellets to the centre and concentric bands outside, lozenge with parallel bands and others.
Provenance
From the 'S' collection, acquired 1970-1990s.
The collection was seen and studied by W.G.Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993.
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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