LOT 1251 Cylinder Seal Group
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3rd millennium BC.A group of four stone cylinder seals comprising two jasper and two limestone; one accompanied by a museum-quality impression and typed and signed scholarly note issued by W.G. Lambert, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder Seal of Soft White Stone 27 x 15 mm. The design shows a two [sic] standing figures, one in longer clothing than the other, and a larger woman straddling over a lying man in the act of coitus. This is worn and is a rare seal for its design, dating to the Akkadian period, or a little later, c.2400-2100 B.C.'; one black stone with zig-zag geometric pattern; one white stone with opposing birds with splayed legs (?); and a black stone cylinder seal with three standing figures. 17 grams total, 17-28mm (3/4 - 1"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; item number 49-B (64), Y-526, Y-972, W-80; academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s; accompanied by one original typed and signed scholarly notes by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert. [4]
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