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LOT 1126
Sumerian White Stone Cylinder Seal
URUK PERIOD, CIRCA 3000 B.C.
1/2 in. (2.85 grams, 12.28 mm).
Drum-shaped with frieze of drilled zoomorphic figures; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
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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