Western Asiatic Steatite Cylinder Seal with Quadrupeds

2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

1 in. (4 grams, 24 mm).

Deeply engraved and showing two reclining quadrupeds with long necks, with two small reclining stags above, pellets on the field; 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 seal in Buchanan, B., Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection, New Yale and London, 1981, no.179.

CONDITION

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LOT 1266