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2ND MILLENNIUM B.C./6TH CENTURY A.D.
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A GROUP OF NEAR EASTERN HARDSTONE STAMP SEALS AND AMULETS
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C./6TH CENTURY A.D.
Including a Sassanian sapphire intaglio engraved with a centaur-bowman, Sagittarius, circa 4th-5th Century A.D., 5/8 in. (1.5 cm.) across; nine Sassanian agate, chalcedony and cornelian stamp seals engraved with devices including a bust of a king, two bearded male busts one emerging from a pair of wings, a draped male bust, a winged horse, an eagle, an ibex and a nisan emblem, some with Pahlavi inscriptions, 5th-6th Century A.D.; a Graeco-Persian translucent glass scaraboid with Herakles, weathered, 5th-4th Century B.C., 1¼ in. (3.1 cm.) long; an Achaemenid yellow stone octagonal domed stamp seal with crossed lion and lion-griffin, circa 6th-5th Century B.C.; a Graeco-Perisan blue chalcedony octagonal domed seal with a winged lion-griffin, circa 5th Century B.C.; a Late Babylonian chalcedony conoid seal with a worshipper before a plant, a star above, 7th-6th Century B.C.; a Syrian blue chalcedony scaraboid, 8th-7th Century B.C.; four agate and chalcedony duck weights; an agate recumbent bull amulet; a rock crystal lion amulet, 1 in. (2.5 cm.) long max., all late 2nd/mid-1st millennium B.C.; and a group of mainly lapis lazuli and shell animal amulets, various periods (32)
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C./6TH CENTURY A.D.
Including a Sassanian sapphire intaglio engraved with a centaur-bowman, Sagittarius, circa 4th-5th Century A.D., 5/8 in. (1.5 cm.) across; nine Sassanian agate, chalcedony and cornelian stamp seals engraved with devices including a bust of a king, two bearded male busts one emerging from a pair of wings, a draped male bust, a winged horse, an eagle, an ibex and a nisan emblem, some with Pahlavi inscriptions, 5th-6th Century A.D.; a Graeco-Persian translucent glass scaraboid with Herakles, weathered, 5th-4th Century B.C., 1¼ in. (3.1 cm.) long; an Achaemenid yellow stone octagonal domed stamp seal with crossed lion and lion-griffin, circa 6th-5th Century B.C.; a Graeco-Perisan blue chalcedony octagonal domed seal with a winged lion-griffin, circa 5th Century B.C.; a Late Babylonian chalcedony conoid seal with a worshipper before a plant, a star above, 7th-6th Century B.C.; a Syrian blue chalcedony scaraboid, 8th-7th Century B.C.; four agate and chalcedony duck weights; an agate recumbent bull amulet; a rock crystal lion amulet, 1 in. (2.5 cm.) long max., all late 2nd/mid-1st millennium B.C.; and a group of mainly lapis lazuli and shell animal amulets, various periods (32)
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