A MITANNIAN LAPIS LAZULI CYLINDER SEAL, showing a seated goddess with a lion and bull beneath a tree flanked by sphinxes, a guilloche pattern in the field with two dancers above and couchant ibexes below, probably circa 14th Century B.C., 2.5cm. high; an Old Babylonian haematite cylinder seal, showing a suppliant goddess before a warrior king holding a sceptre in his right hand, lower edge rounded off, circa 1800 B.C., 2.8cm. high; and another black stone cylinder seal (3)

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A MITANNIAN LAPIS LAZULI CYLINDER SEAL, showing a seated goddess with a lion and bull beneath a tree flanked by sphinxes, a guilloche pattern in the field with two dancers above and couchant ibexes below, probably circa 14th Century B.C., 2.5cm. high; an Old Babylonian haematite cylinder seal, showing a suppliant goddess before a warrior king holding a sceptre in his right hand, lower edge rounded off, circa 1800 B.C., 2.8cm. high; and another black stone cylinder seal (3)

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