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LOT 1438
Western Asiatic Black Stone Stamp Seal with Animals
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
7/8 in. (8.41 grams, 22.64 mm).
Conical in profile with segmented underside, bull-head goat and other motifs; 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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Large Proto-Sumerian Terracotta Cuneiform Tablet
4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,200
Pillow-shaped with incised grid to the broad faces, dense cuneiform text in the columns with impressed pellet numerals. 236 grams, 89 mm
Private collection, acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s; thence by descent. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13179-249318.
Various collections of cuneiform tablets form a corpus of texts mainly of an administrative nature, from the Uruk III and Ur III periods. The proto-cuneiform, as a system of proto-writing, emerged in Mesopotamia ca.3500-3200 BC, during the Uruk period. -
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Including barbed, barbed-and-tanged leaf-shaped and other types. 125 grams total, 40-75 mm
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Western Asiatic Stone Talisman Pendant
Circa 9th-13th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Hexagonal in plan with rounded sides ornamented with a row of roundels, holed at the top; inscribed legend to both faces. 51.9 grams, 51 mm
Formerly in an old French collection. Ex Marc Labarbe, Toulouse France. Property of a West Northamptonshire, UK, gentleman.
