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LOT 0966
Western Asiatic Steatite Cylinder Seal with Animals
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 in. (7.5 grams, 23 mm).
With frieze depicting a bird with wings spread above an advancing canine, tree and leaping goat. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector, collection no.028.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 603, for type.
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