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LOT 1218
Western Asiatic Stone Cylinder Seal with Contest Scene
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. OR LATER
1 in. (21.17 grams, 26 mm).
Agate drum-shaped column with central piercing; incuse frieze depicting a standing horned anthropomorphic figure grappling with two addorsed rampant stags, similar figure between two opposed stags with smaller inverted animal. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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