Lot 0848

BACTRIAN STAMP SEAL

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Item Details

Description

Ca. 2300 - 1800 BC.
A round Bactrian stamp seal depicting two horned animals facing each other in the forest. The reverse is decorated with linear geometric motifs. The stamp seal has a flat body with a horizontally drilled hole. For similar see: Unpublished Stamp - seal from the north western Murgab Delta, Table 7.12. fig. 1.
Size: 27mm x 27mm; Weight: 9g
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collection, 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.