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Mesopotamian Stone Cylinder Seal

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Item Details

Description

Circa 2nd-1st millennium B.C. Engraved with frieze of enigmatic motifs; drilled vertically for suspension. 6.76 grams, 22 mm (7/8 in.).

From an important London, UK, collection, 1970-1990. 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.