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live November 18 | 02:30 PM
Hôtel des ventes de Monte-Carlo

136 - SCEAU CYLINDRE

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Estimation

€150 - 300

Sale fees

30%

SCEAU CYLINDRE Stéatite (?) H. 2,4 cm Mésopotamie, style paléo-babylonien (?), XIXe-XVIIe siècle av. J.-C. Sceau cylindre de pierre noire polie, gravé en creux d'une frise continue. Un personnage barbu marche vers la droite, vêtu d'un long manteau ouvert laissant voir la jambe avancée, devant une longue hampe verticale. Deux personnages se font face, les jambes croisées, dans une scène de lutte ou d'affrontement (?). Un personnage tenant un bâton recourbé se tient devant une figure en longue robe plissée coiffée d'une tiare, peut-être une divinité protectrice (?). Un registre vertical divisé en trois compartiments présente, de haut en bas, un quadrupède à queue enroulée, un groupe de petits motifs et un singe accroupi face à un animal. A polished black stone cylinder seal, intaglio-carved with a continuous frieze. A bearded figure strides to the right, wearing a long open robe revealing the advanced leg, before a tall vertical staff. Two figures face each other with crossed legs, in a contest or combat scene (?). A figure holding a curved staff stands before a figure in a long pleated robe and headdress, possibly a protective deity (?). A vertical panel in three registers shows, from top to bottom, a quadruped with curled tail, a group of small motifs, and a crouching monkey facing an animal.

Auction details

Archéologie online
Wednesday, November 18
02:30 PM
10-12, quai Antoine 1er
98000 Monte-Carlo, Monaco

Auction house

Hôtel des ventes de Monte-Carlo +37 7 93 25 88 89 amournet@hvmc.com
On Drouot for 5 years avec More than 46,000 lots published

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