CIRCA 1700-1600 B.C.

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AN OLD BABYLONIAN HAEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1700-1600 B.C.
With a supplicant, wearing long fringed robe, standing before a deity, holding a staff with elaborate finial and whose foot rests on a couchant animal, a crescent and halved circle in the field, with three lines of cuneiform reading: 'Nin-Subur, wise in all things, have mercy on me'
1 1/8 in. (2.7 cm.) high

Provenance

The Charterhouse collection, UK, inv. no. 2-1956-19, gifted by Mr Leonard Marshall, 1896.
The Charterhouse Collection, Sotheby's, London, 5 November 2002, lot 140 (part lot).
Private collection, UK.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
P. R. S. Moorey and O. R. Gurney, 'Ancient Near Eastern Seals at Charterhouse', Iraq, vol. 35, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1973, p. 78, no. 20, pl. 35.

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