EIGHTEEN MESOPOTAMIAN STAMP AND CYLINDER SEALS
EIGHTEEN MESOPOTAMIAN STAMP AND CYLINDER SEALS

DYNASTY II-III TO AKKADIAN, CIRCA 2700-2100 B.C.

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EIGHTEEN MESOPOTAMIAN STAMP AND CYLINDER SEALS
DYNASTY II-III TO AKKADIAN, CIRCA 2700-2100 B.C.
Including one of yellow-grey stone with bull and caprid; one of cream stone with a contest scene; another of cream stone with two kneeling figures grasping hind legs of long-horned caprid; one of shell with two standing figures; one of cream stone with two registers; another of cream stone with contest scene including a stag, hero, bull and lion; one of shell with contest scene, all Dynasty II-III circa 2700-2350 B.C.; one of creamy stone with contest scene with bull-man grasping a rampant stag; one of cream shell with two registers both with contest scenes; one of white stone, fragmentary; one of cream-yellow stone with boat-god with long-horned caprid; one of cream shell with contest scene with bull-man and lion; another of cream shell with combat scene; another of cream shell with contest scene with two heroes, bull and lion; one of black serpentine with two groups of fighting divinities; one of white stone with standing figures; one of green serpentine with a worshipper being led towards a seated divinity; and one of dark brown serpentine with a seated figure with two standing female figures in front, all Akkadian circa 2334-2112 B.C.
2½. (6.4 cm.) high max. (18)
Provenance
Private collection, Denmark, acquired in the 1960s-1970s; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
E. Moller, Ancient Near Eastern Seals in a Danish Collection, Copenhagen, 1992, pp. 31-42, nos 52-54, 56, 57-71.

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