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LOT 0303
Sumerian Lapis Lazuli Amuletic Animal Seal
URUK PERIOD, CIRCA 3000 B.C.
1 1/8 in. (7.6 grams, 28.6 mm).
Plano-convex in section with incuse pair of animals to the underside.
ProvenanceFrom the 'S' collection, acquired 1970-1990s.
Accompanied by a description by Peter Gert Van der Veen, senior lecturer of Levantine Archaeology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz.
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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Syrian Haematite Scaraboid Seal
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £900
With rampant lion and statant winged gryphon. 8.35 grams, 21 mm
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate, no.3095.WW. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12715-234628. 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. -
Anatolian Black Stone Cylinder Seal with Standing Hunter
Circa 1200-1000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £598
Cylinder with cord and bead handles; accompanied by a copy of an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder seal of black stone, 38 x 22.5 mm., condition very good. The stone is slightly wider at the base than the top. Scene of standing hunter (?), sideways and inverted quadrupeds, scorpion, unidentified four legged creature, lunar crescent, dot with four concentric circles around it; the whole between two rules. Syrian or Anatolian, c. 1200-1000 B.C.'; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 35.7 grams, 37 mm
UK private collection, acquired 1980-1983. Accompanied by a copy of a scholarly note, typed and signed by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert in November 1988. 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. -
Western Asiatic Bronze Animal Figure
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Formed with a flange to the rump, legs spread. 8.92 grams, 45 mm long
Acquired in the 1990s. Ex Abelita family collection. 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.
