OLD BABYLONIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL
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Ca. 1800-1600 BC.It depicts a deity holding a lightning bundle being approsched by a human or divine figure. An eight-pointed star and a standard are found in the exergue. A fragmentary cuneiform inscription is found in two registers. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Size: L:13.9mm / W:11mm ; 3.08g Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; formerly in a central London family collections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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OLD BABYLONIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL
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