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late Babylonian Stone Cylinder Seal with Contest Scene
late Babylonian Stone Cylinder Seal with Contest Scene
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1000-800 B.C. With incuse frieze depicting a winged male figure wearing a tall headdress and holding a khopesh hooked sword, one foot placed on the corpse of a goat or ram, grappling with a rearing bull-headed winged beast and gripping its raised foreleg; behind, a a second winged male figure with a sceptre and raised club to strike the bull-headed beast from behind; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 32.6 grams, 40 mm (1 1/2 in.).

From the property of late Mr SM, London, UK, 1970-1990s, thence by descent. 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.

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late Babylonian Stone Cylinder Seal with Contest Scene

Estimate £800 - £1,000
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Starting Price £700
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