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CIRCA 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
Details
FIVE NEAR EASTERN CYLINDER SEALS
circa 3rd millennium b.c.
Including an Early Dynastic I banded steatite seal engraved with four leaping animals; an unusual black steatite seal with a winged bull; an Early Dynastic I calcite seal with a large rosette, a cross-hatched border above and below; an Anatolian black steatite seal with a standing figure before a bull and a two-headed ibex; and a Jemdet Nasr chalcedony seal with three leaping animals
26 in. (5.9 cm) high for the largest (5)
circa 3rd millennium b.c.
Including an Early Dynastic I banded steatite seal engraved with four leaping animals; an unusual black steatite seal with a winged bull; an Early Dynastic I calcite seal with a large rosette, a cross-hatched border above and below; an Anatolian black steatite seal with a standing figure before a bull and a two-headed ibex; and a Jemdet Nasr chalcedony seal with three leaping animals
26 in. (5.9 cm) high for the largest (5)
Literature
Arts de l'ancien Iran, no. 277.
Exhibited
Arts de l'ancien Iran, Museé Borély, Marseilles, 1975, for the fourth.
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