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LOT 1490
Western Asiatic Terracotta Jar
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
8 in. (1.62 kg, 20.5 cm).
Coarse ware jar with biconvex profile, flared rim. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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Western Asiatic Glass Bead Necklace String
1st millennium A.D. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £33
Composed of tubular beads; restrung. 14.3 grams, 48.5 cm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Sumerian Green Stone Cylinder Seal
Uruk, 3rd millennium B.C.Estimate: £550 - 750 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £300
With incuse frieze of three horizontal lines of stylised seated figures, pierced for suspension. 17.5 grams, 21 mm
Ex 'S' collection, London, UK. Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
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Syro-Cappadocian Cylinder Seal with Animals and Figures
2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
Columnar in form with two beads and a cord forming handles; accompanied by a copy of an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder Seal of Soft Black Stone, 19x10.5mm. The engraved area is divided into two registers by a notched band. In the upper, narrower register there is a row of nine human heads. Below is a row of various items: a mace; a sitting animal; a recumbent bull with a bird above its back; a wedge; a standing human with one hand raised; a recumbent horned quadruped with head turned back with combined sun and lunar crescent above it. This seal is Syro-Cappadocian, from c. 2000 B.C. For comparable seals cf. Briggs Buchanan, catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, I, no. 849 and idem, early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection, no.1180.'; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 4.95 grams, 38 mm long
UK private collection, acquired 1980-1983. Accompanied by a copy of a typed and signed scholarly note by the late W.G. Lambert, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, with reference no.1580. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
