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Eleven Mesopotamian hardstone cylinder seals 11 image 1
Eleven Mesopotamian hardstone cylinder seals 11 image 2
Lot 138

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1 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Eleven Mesopotamian hardstone cylinder seals
Jemdet Nasr Period - Neo-Assyrian Period, circa 2800-700 B.C.
Including a Jemdet Nasr limestone cylinder seal carved with a hero holding two up-ended animals by their horns, flanked by a second hero, circa 2800 B.C., 30mm high; six Akkadian serpentine cylinder seals, showing various contest scenes with heroes wrestling animals, one with with the sun god Shamash wearing the horned crown, a drinking scene and another with a priestess and worshippers, circa 2400 B.C., 21mm-31mm high; two Ur III serpentine cylinder seals, showing enthroned deities and worshippers, circa 2100 B.C., 26mm-29mm high; a Syrian haematite cylinder seal, with men battling lions and a griffin, circa 2000 B.C., 20mm high; and a Neo-Assyrian serpentine cylinder seal, showing a hero fighting a sphinx, circa 9th-8th Century B.C., 26mm high, with original presentation box (11)

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Provenance:
Dutch private collection.
Hüfner Collection, Bonn, Germany.
Prof. Dr. H. Kirmis Collection, Neümunster, Germany, mid-20th Century.
Hofrat Horner Collection, Switzerland.
Flandin Collection, Paris, France.
A. Beperer Collection, Basel, Switzerland, acquired at the end of the 19th Century.

Accompanied by a report from Dr A. Amiet-Engel addressed to Mr Beperer dated 1 July 1899, and by an expertise from Dr Rainer-Michael Boehmerb, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, dated 11 January 1972.

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