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Western Asiatic Limestone Mortar

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Western Asiatic Limestone Cylinder Seal with Procession Scene: Circa 3rd millennium B.C. Carved with a row of figures in two registers, one with a textured robe. Cf. Collon, D., Near Eastern Seals, London, 1990, item 19, for type. 33.8 grams, 39 mm (1 1/2 in.). A

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Western Asiatic Limestone Cylinder Seal: Circa 3rd millennium B.C. Cotton-reel type with incised 'eye' and saltire motifs. Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 18, for type.

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A WESTERN ASIATIC ELAMITE AMULET LIMESTONE WITH LION SEATED, CIRCA 2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.: An Elamite amulet made from limestone in the form of a reclining mythical lion, with head facing upwards open mouth. Very good condition. Provenance: Purchased from Nottinghamshire Antique fair before

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Western Asiatic Cylinder Seal With Trees and Figures: Western Asiatic Cylinder Seal with Trees and Figures, Early c. 2nd Millennium B.C. Western Asiatic, c. 2nd Millennium B.C. A limestone cylinder seal with figural friezes, trees and branches. Comes wit

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A WESTERN ASIATIC PHOENICIAN STAMP WITH ARAMAIC INSCRIPTION, CIRCA 700 - 500 B.C.: A hard limestone engraved with an Aramaic inscription which is Shâ€™Kâ€™L weight. It will be one shekel weight. 20 mm. diam., 12 mm. height 8.10 grams.CONDITION Good condition. PROVENANCE Fo

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Western Asiatic Assyrian or Babylonian Calender Tablet: 1000-500 BC. A repaired fragment of a limestone bifacial tablet with cuneiform inscription; accompanied by an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, Unive

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Western Asiatic South Arabian Figurative Sculpture: 2nd century BC-2nd century AD. A carved limestone sculpture of a seated female with arms held bent at the sides, tapering head with lentoid eyes and vertical flange nose. 3.1 kg, 24cm (9 1/2"). Ex Nor

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Western Asiatic Jemdet Nasr Type Stamp Seal: Circa 3000 BC. An indurated limestone seal in the form of a recumbent cow, the base with a seal of a 'footprint' design; pierced for suspension. 29 grams, 47mm (1 3/4"). From the collection of a Mayfa

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Western Asiatic Bactrian Pillar Idol: 2nd millennium BC. A pink mottled brecciated limestone columnar idol with flared base, waisted body with shallow slot to both flat faces; upper rim chipped. 3.9 kg, 23cm (9"). Property of a London col

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Western Asiatic Cylinder Seal with Combat Scene: 2nd millennium BC. A black limestone cylinder seal with hatched panels and advancing animals. 6.77 grams, 23mm (1"). Property of a Bristol collector; formerly part of his father's collection formed be

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Western Asiatic Bactrian Weight-Shaped Idol: 2nd millennium BC. A carved limestone bullet-shaped idol or weight with perforation to the narrow end, flat base. 11.3 grams, 25cm (10"). Ex Pars Gallery, London W1; in the 1990s. [No Reserve]

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Western Asiatic Southern Arabian Inscribed Figural: 2nd century BC-2nd century AD. The top of a rectangular limestone stele with stylised human face carved in the half-round; lentoid sockets for separate inlaid eyes, keeled triangular nose, D-shaped bi

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Western Asiatic Jemdet Nasr Type Cylinder Seal with: 4th-3rd millennium BC. A carved limestone cylinder seal with frieze of a running beast and various symbols; accompanied by an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of As

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Western Asiatic Cylinder Seal Collection: 3rd millennium BC or later. A group of four cylinder seals, one in white agate, and three in black limestone, including an Early Dynastic III cylinder seal with contest scene and a Mitanni seal, possi

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Western Asiatic Cylinder Seal Group: 2nd-1st millennium BC. A mixed group of carved stone cylinder seals with geometric detailing composed of carnelian (1), chalcedony (1), and limestone (3"). 25 grams total, 20-30mm (3/4 - 1 1/4"). From

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Western Asiatic Large Bactrian Pillar Idol: 2nd millennium BC. A carved fossiliferous limestone columnar idol with shallow slot to each flat face and both sides. Cf. Linenthal, P. Columns, Discs and the Creation of the World, see www.academia.e

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1st millennium B.C. With short columnar base and bulbous upper body, broad rim with pouring lip. Cf. Squitieri. A., Eitam, D. (ed.), Stone tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Ground stone tools, rock-cut installations and stone vessels from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, Oxford, 2019, pp. 237-238, and 275, for examples of similar type. 4.85 kg, 13 cm (5 1/4 in.).

From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

The later (2nd -3rd century A.D.) Rabbinic tradition emphasised the difference between the permanent mortar (makhtesh kevua) and the movable one (makhtesh metaltelet), with the first being automatically sold with the house, but the second sold only if expressly stated by the vendor. This form of movable mortar was common in the Levant throughout the second half of the 1st millennium B.C. [No Reserve]