AN OLD BABYLONIAN HAEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL

CIRCA 1800-1600 B.C.

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AN OLD BABYLONIAN HAEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1800-1600 B.C.
With three standing figures: a deity holding a lightening fork and leading a calf, a star-topped staff behind, a male worshipper, and a supplicant wearing a long fringed robe with hands raised, with two lines of cuneiform reading: 'Mar-Istar, servant of Ammuru'
1 in. (2.7 cm.) high

Provenance

The Charterhouse collection, UK, inv. no. 2-1956-24, 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. 76, no. 16, pl. 35.

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