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EARLY NEO-BABYLONIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL

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EARLY NEO-BABYLONIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL
EARLY NEO-BABYLONIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL
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Ca. 8th-7th century BC or later. A finely carved Neo-Babylonian/Chaldean cylinder seal with kingly figures and deities (Arwium on the gazelle and Adad on the bull). Several religious astral symbols (six-pointed star, lunar crescent, two-winged sun disk) in the exergue. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.Size: L:42mm / W:20mm ; 32.05gProvenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collections 1990s; Suggested to be 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.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market.
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EARLY NEO-BABYLONIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL

Estimate £1,500 - £3,000
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