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Western Asiatic Green Glass Cylinder Seal with Entertainment Scene Western Asiatic Green Glass Cylinder Seal with Entertainment Scene Western Asiatic Green Glass Cylinder Seal with Entertainment Scene
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LOT 1176

Western Asiatic Green Glass Cylinder Seal with Entertainment Scene

EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

1 1/4 in. (16.55 grams, 31 mm).

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.

Provenance

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.

Footnotes

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

CONDITION
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LOT 1176

Western Asiatic Green Glass Cylinder Seal with Entertainment Scene

Sold for (Inc. bp): £715

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