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LOT 0914
Western Asiatic Mixed Stone and Glass Necklace Bead Collection
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
1/8 - 5/8 in. (84 grams total, 1-16 mm).
Comprising a quantity of small beads, mostly drawn coloured glass beads intended for embroidery.
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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LOT 0914
Western Asiatic Mixed Stone and Glass Necklace Bead Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
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Neo Babylonian Bifacial Quartz Stamp Seal
Circa mid 1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Rectangular-section tongue-shaped seal with suspension holes; to the underside, an incuse engraved scene of a standing figure in floor-length robe beside a grid or hurdle with trefoil finial; to one broad face, a similar figure in a fringed garment with one hand raised; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 9.36 grams, 23 mm
Ex West Country collection before 1992. 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. -
Western Asiatic Lapis Lazuli Cylinder Seal
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £910
With incised frieze of a standing crowned figure offering a frond to a facing female figure with a third in floor-length garment behind, two columns of later cuneiform text to the rear. 2.7 grams, 20 mm
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector; collection no.036. London collection, 2016. -
Western Asiatic White Stone Bead Necklace
Circa 1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Restrung; composed of small pale stone or shell smoothed cylinder beads of various shades and types. 12.1 grams, 66 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s.
