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LOT 0196
Uruk Black Stone Cylinder Seal with Seated Figure
CIRCA 2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
7/8 in. (15.7 grams, 22 mm).
Featuring three vertical grooves separating the seal into three separate panels, each drilled with a female figure seated beside pots; drilled vertically for suspension.
Provenance
From an important London, UK, collection, 1970-1990.
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.
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