Western Asiatic Orange Banded Agate Cylinder Seal with Figure

1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

1 1/8 in. (10.2 grams, 28 mm).

Profile figure standing, wearing a tiered and flounced floor-length robe; chipped; supplied with a museum-quality impression. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Literature

Cf. a similar (complete) Neo-Babylonian seal in Wilson, J.A., Allen, T.G., Ancient Oriental Cylinder and Other Seals, with a description of the collection of Mrs. William H.Moore, Chicago, 1940, fig.130.

CONDITION

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