LOT 1812 Western Asiatic Stamp Seal and Amulet Collection
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3rd-1st millennium BC. A group of ten seals and amulets comprising: a tortoise, a recumbent horse, two cows, the lower part of a Lamassu formed as an elliptical dish with bearded face to one side, prominent brow and nose; body of a quadruped in low relief to the same side, an bone quadruped with head turned back to meet the body, drill hole to the eye, a bird with knop head and flat flared body and pointed tail, a butterfly with segmented body and open wings, a quadruped with anthropomorphic facial features, and a pig(?) amulet with stamp seal to the base, design with four simple drilled animals. 152 grams total, 26-56mm (12 1/4"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; collection numbers 4(?)386, 33-B (41), Y-390, Z-12, Z-13, Z-14, Z-17, Z-83, Z-87, plus another, academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s. Dr. Bonewitz notes: 'The items are made from serpentine (1), limestone (4), marble (4), bone (1).' [10] Fine condition.
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