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LOT 0240
Western Asiatic Haematite Cylinder Seal with Presentation Scene
CIRCA 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3/4 in. (4.04 grams, 18 mm).
With detailed frieze including a standing figure with tall helmet, raising his arm to strike a similar figure with both hands raised, bird above the scene and ankh below, smaller combat scene below with beast and kneeling figure with an axe; guilloche and other items in the field; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
Provenance
From an important London, UK, collection, 1970-1990.
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.
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LOT 0240
Western Asiatic Haematite Cylinder Seal with Presentation Scene
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
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