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Ca. 600 - 500 BC.
An octagonal Neo - Babylonian stamp seal depicting a standing god with a horned tiara facing left, holding a sceptre and looking at a star in the sky. Behind the figure, there is a highly stylised goat. The seal has an octagonal body with horizontally drilled hole. For similar see: Berlin Museum, VA 10368.
Size: 17mm x 12mm; Weight: 8g
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.
An octagonal Neo - Babylonian stamp seal depicting a standing god with a horned tiara facing left, holding a sceptre and looking at a star in the sky. Behind the figure, there is a highly stylised goat. The seal has an octagonal body with horizontally drilled hole. For similar see: Berlin Museum, VA 10368.
Size: 17mm x 12mm; Weight: 8g
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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NEO - BABYLONIAN STAMP SEAL DEPICTING A STANDING GOD WITH A HORNED TIARA
Estimate £400 - £600
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