Sale 9380
New York
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13 June 2000
Price realised
USD 3,760
Estimate
SIX NEO-BABYLONIAN AND GRAECO-PERSIAN SEALS circa 6th-4th century b.c. Including two calcified chalcedony pyramidal stamp seals, one engraved with a hero fighting a lion, the other (damaged) with a hippocamp and a fish; together with three conoids, one blue chalcedony with the master of the animals, one blue chalcedony with a hero fighting a stag, and one yellow, red and white veined jasper with a lion and a stag; and a gray chalcedony pyramidal seal with a bearded head in profile to the left .13/16 in. (2.1 cm) in diameter for the largest (6)
Provenance
Hans Silvius von Aulock Dr. Elie Borowski
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Literature
von Aulock, nos. 153, 165, 197, 199, 203, 209.
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