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Sumerian Cylinder Seal with Cuneiform Text

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Sumerian Cylinder Seal with Cuneiform Text

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4th-2nd millennium BC. An unfinished white marble cylinder seal with four registers of cuneiform text, possibly an apprentice's practise piece; accompanied by a museum-quality impression. 5.09 grams, 24mm (1"). Ex private London, UK, collection, 1970-1990; seen by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert in the 1990s. [No Reserve]