Western Asiatic Stone Cylinder Seal Group

2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

1/2 - 1 in. (16.57 grams total, 12-24 mm).

Comprising: a dark grey steatite seal with two standing creatures with two smaller creatures above them; a hematite seal with a Syrian man wearing a short skirt, a man with curly hair holding a staff, an adorant in a Syrian skirt and a man wearing a pleated skirt; a light grey quartz seal with a figure with outstretched arms riding a beast; a steatite seal with vertical registers; a steatite seal with a seated figure and standing attendants; supplied with museum-quality impressions. [5, No Reserve]

Provenance

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

Accompanied by previous typed catalogue slips with collection nos.29,39,59,70, and one handwritten note.

Literature

Cf. a seal with similar patterns in Buchanan, B., Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection, New Yale and London, 1981, no.231.

CONDITION

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