Western Asiatic Black Stone Cylinder Seal with Presentation Scene

2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

5/8 in. (1.47 grams, 15 mm).

Haematite seal with carved frieze of a standing supplicant offering a vessel to a seated potentate; supplied with a museum-quality impression.

Provenance

From a Cotswold, UK, collection, item no.74; as seen and catalogued by the late Professor Wilfrid George Lambert pre 1990.

Footnotes

The late W.G. Lambert was Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham in the period 1970-1993.

CONDITION

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