Western Asiatic Stone Cylinder Seal Group

3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

1/2 - 3/4 in. (15.3 grams total, 12-19 mm).

Comprising: a grey steatite seal with a geometric pattern; a concave grey steatite seal with a linear pattern; a black steatite seal with a zig-zag motif; a steatite seal with a man wearing a Syrian fur-trimmed skirt, a figure in a fringed skirt, partition, a frontal nude woman, partition, a figure in a skirt and a tree; a dark grey granite seal with three dashed figures; 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 a previous typed catalogue slips with collection nos.6, 7, 19, 42, 68.

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.226a.

CONDITION

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