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Akkadian Agate Cylinder Seal with Inscription
Akkadian Agate Cylinder Seal with Inscription
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2nd millennium B.C. Figural panel with a female in profile wearing tiered robe and with arms drawn up to the chest facing a male wearing a short jacket open at the hips; between them a dog with one foreleg raised; four columns of cuneiform text. 7.29 grams, 26 mm (1 in.).

From the property of late Mr SM, London, UK, 1970-1990s, thence by decent. 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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Akkadian Agate Cylinder Seal with Inscription

Estimate £500 - £700
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£440

Starting Price £440
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