Western Asiatic Rock Crystal Cylinder Seal with Figural Scene

2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

1 3/4 in. (16.8 grams, 43 mm).

A rock crystal cylinder seal with incuse design divided horizontally by a line of crescents; an advancing figure with smaller figures at his feet, a large tree, animals and other objects in the field.

Provenance

From an important family collection.
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.

Literature

Cf. similar in the collection of the British Museum, London, under reference 1978,0415.2.

CONDITION

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