Western Asiatic Whetstone with Lion-Headed Terminal

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.

With gently rounded and tapering sidewall to the shallow bowl, three integral tapering legs formed as stylised elephant-heads each with a long trunk and simple facial detailing; the flared ends of the trunks forming and splayed feet; Indus Valley period. 2.9 kg, 33.5 cm



with a London, UK gallery 1971-early 2000s. Accompanied by an original thermoluminescence analysis report no.N123k2 from Oxford Authentication. 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.

A restrung necklace of mainly barrel-shaped banded agate beads with central banded agate tabular bead; modern clasp. 109 grams, 45 cm



From the collection of a European lady; part of a private collection formed in Germany in the 1990s. Property of a Californian, USA, collector. 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.