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LOT 0843
Western Asiatic Artefact Group
19TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER
2 1/2 - 6 7/8 in. (168 grams total, 6.5-17.5 cm).
Including a white metal pyxis, wooden dagger handle and other items. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a UK private collection, before 1980.
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Mesopotamian Stone Weight Collection
Circa 1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £91
Including tabular, cylindrical, conical and other types, all polished. 256 grams total, 17-54 mm
Ex Simmons Gallery, London E11, UK, in the 1990s. From a North London collection. -
Western Asiatic Tubular Gold Bead Group
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
Group of twenty-six corrugated tubular sheet-gold beads. 4.38 grams total, 4-11 mm
From a late Japanese specialist collector, 1970-2000s. -
Western Asiatic Stone and Other Bead Necklace
Circa 1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £1
Restrung with three central feature beads; composed of graduated beads of various types of white stone, rock crystal, glass, coral and shell. 15.6 grams, 46 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar beads were found during the excavations of the royal tombs of Nimrud. Thousands of beads were discovered in the sarcophagi, including those of Nimrud’s Queens; they probably originally formed part of wide collars with multiple strands.
