Apollo Art Auctions

March 2023 Auction  –  12 marzo 2023

Apollo Art Auctions , March 2023 Auction

Ancient Art, Antiquities and Coins

Dom., 12.03.2023, dalle ore 12:00 UTC
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EARLY NEO-BABYLONIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL
Ca. 8th-7th century BC or later.
A finely carved Neo-Babylonian/Chaldean cylinder seal with kingly figures and deities (Arwium on the gazelle and Adad on the bull). Several religious astral symbols (six-pointed star, lunar crescent, two-winged sun disk) in the exergue. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Size: L:42mm / W:20mm ; 32.05g
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collections 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.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market.
Estimate: GBP 1500 - 3000

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Risultato 1'000 GBP
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