NEAR EAST. Cylinder seal depicting a seated priest facing a deer. Marine conch. …

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NEAR EAST. Cylinder seal depicting a seated priest facing a deer. Marine conch. 2nd-1st mill. b.c. Lg: 3.5 cm

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NEAR EAST. Cylinder seal depicting a seated priest facing a deer. Marine conch. 2nd-1st mill. b.c. Lg: 3.5 cm

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Estim. 150 - 300 EUR

A NEAR EAST STONE CYLINDER SEAL, c. 4000-2000 BC A NEAR EAST STONE CYLINDER SEAL, c. 4000-2000 BC Near East, Ancient region of Mesopotamia, 4000 BC-2000 BC or later. Finely carved and incised with animals and figures. Condition: Very good condition commensurate with age, with minor wear. Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. István Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe. Weight: 15 g Dimensions: Length 3.1 cm

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Miniature Old Babylonian Lapis Lazuli Cylinder Seal with Seated Gods. Early 2nd millennium B.C. Frieze of incuse seated figures in profile. 0.23 grams, 7 mm (1/4 in.). From an important collection formed before 1988. Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

OLD ASSYRIAN STONE CYLINDER SEAL WITH COURT SCENE. CIRCA 2000-1750 B.C. With frieze depicting a seated figure facing with chalice in his extended hand, facing a standing figure above a goat; standing attendants behind the seated figure. 5.3 grams, 21 mm (3/4 in.). Ex S collection, London, UK, 1970-1990s.

Small cylinder seal in black stone, decorated with an animal scene. Eastern art or Bactria, Archaic period. Lg. 2.4 cm. Imprint enclosed.

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