Lot Essay
For item one cf. P. Harper (ed.) et al, The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, pp. 70-74, nos. 39-45
NEAR EASTERN
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A RARE PROTO-ELAMITE GREEN HEULANDITE CYLINDER SEAL, showing the forepart of a bull and a lion, the head and reclining forepart of two smaller bovine animals above, one side flat with hatching in the upper half, circa 3100-2900 B.C., 1½in. (3.8cm.) high; and an Akkadian black stone cylinder seal showing a contest scene, with a horned bull-man grappling with a lion and a hero with curling locks in contest with a buffalo, both animals reared up on their hind-legs, with a later three-line inscription, late 3rd millennium B.C., 1¼in. (3.2cm.) high (2)
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A RARE PROTO-ELAMITE GREEN HEULANDITE CYLINDER SEAL, showing the forepart of a bull and a lion, the head and reclining forepart of two smaller bovine animals above, one side flat with hatching in the upper half, circa 3100-2900 B.C., 1½in. (3.8cm.) high; and an Akkadian black stone cylinder seal showing a contest scene, with a horned bull-man grappling with a lion and a hero with curling locks in contest with a buffalo, both animals reared up on their hind-legs, with a later three-line inscription, late 3rd millennium B.C., 1¼in. (3.2cm.) high (2)