SASANIAN PINK STONE STAMP SEAL
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Ca. AD 200 - 400.
A Sasanian pink hard stone stamp seal depicting a bull facing right and a star in the sky with highly stylised details. The seal has a cylindrical body with a horizontally drilled hole. For similar see: Sasanian stamp seal in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, n. 96.
Size: 17mm x 17mm; Weight: 9g
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collection, 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.
A Sasanian pink hard stone stamp seal depicting a bull facing right and a star in the sky with highly stylised details. The seal has a cylindrical body with a horizontally drilled hole. For similar see: Sasanian stamp seal in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, n. 96.
Size: 17mm x 17mm; Weight: 9g
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collection, 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.
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SASANIAN PINK STONE STAMP SEAL
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