Western Asiatic Bronze Seated Dog Pendant

Pillow-shaped tablet with dense cuneiform text to two broad faces and one edge, concerning the listing of 146 sheep and their owners or shepherds. 202 grams, 78 mm



with Laemmle Gallery, San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles, USA. Acquired from the above in the early 1970s. with Bonhams, London, 13 April 2011, no.133. Private central European collection. Accompanied by copies of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12121-218147.

With frieze of entertainers: standing nude figure with curly hair holding a syrinx to her mouth facing a seated nude female playing a curved lyre; to her rear, three nude female dancers; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 16.55 grams, 31 mm



From the property of late Mr SM, London, UK, 1970-1990s, thence by descent. 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.

Glass is very rarely used in this period for cylinder seals.

Haematite with a group of four standing figures consisting of a bearded male wearing a kilt and horned cap, crescent moon to the top; in front a male wearing long robes, hands raised in worship, behind a female in long robes and with arms crossed over chest; behind a male figure in long robes and wearing a horned cap, hand resting on shoulder of female; rectangular panel with three rows of cuneiform text. 4.32 grams, 15 mm



From an important North London collection formed in the late 1980s. From a collection acquired from various auction houses in the UK. From the estate of Mr R.W., a private Wiltshire, UK, collector; thence by descent.