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LOT 1178
Sumerian Cylinder Seal with Animals
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/8 in. (13.3 grams, 29 mm).
With frieze depicting rearing beasts and anthropomorphic figure holding two by the neck, the 'Master of Animals'; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 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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