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LOT 1430
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]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
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.
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LOT 1430
Western Asiatic Stone Cylinder Seal Group
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Neo-Assyrian Brown Steatite Cylinder Seal with a Dog
Circa 900-700 B.C.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
The lower half of a cylinder seal showing the bottom part of two Syrian dresses and a sitting dog, a tree and two stars; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 5.38 grams, 16 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s. Accompanied by a previous typed catalogue slip with collection no.78. -
Achaemenid Turquoise Glass and Other Bead Necklace String
Mid 1st millennium B.C. and laterEstimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Composed mainly of oblate and biconical beads with larger beads as the central feature, restrung. 11.4 grams, 32 cm
Acquired in the 1990s. Ex London, UK, collection. -
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Persian Iron Dragon-Shaped Flint Striker
17th-18th century A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
With thick looped body and striking face to the outer edge; handle formed in openwork with stylized serpent-head, open mouth with recurved teeth, trident tail with similar, pellet-clusters; engraved and drilled detailing. 297 grams, 11.5 cm
Acquired in Christie's, The Longridge Collection, London, UK, 2010 (£1,276.00). Personal collection of a Suffolk lady, UK.
Among the objects reflecting the continuation of traditional figural compositions in Indo-Iranian art, there are zoomorphic flint strikers, decorated with serpents, ducks or geese and hawks attacking birds, indicating the persistence of imperial and solar symbols.
