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LOT 1411
Western Asiatic Black Stone Cylinder Seal with Insects
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
5/8 in. (0.35 grams, 16.7 mm).
Frieze of rows of insects within linear borders; supplied with a museum-quality impression. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
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Western Asiatic Gold Wire Pendant
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Formed from a single wire and the ends coiled around the body. 0.15 grams, 10 mm
Ex private British collection, formed in the 1980s. Property of a West Northamptonshire, UK, gentleman. -
Western Asiatic Bronze Bull Rider
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £278
Showing a man on a standing bull, grabbing the hair of a captive with his right hand. 84 grams, 51 mm high
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.
The statuette can represent the god storm Hazor, a storm deity with lunar traits. The association between a bull and storm deities is well known on Anatolian sealings from 20th-19th century B.C. The portrayal of a god standing on a bull in conjunction with lunar symbols derived from Old Babylonian cult, where the bull was connected with the Moon as a goddess, and continued in the Near East in association with the god Hazor, identified with El, head of the Canaanite pantheon. -
Western Asiatic Red Agate Cylinder Seal with Gryphons
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Frieze with two rearing gryphons flanking a vertical column, a third crouching gryphon between them; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 1.44 grams, 20.8 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
