LOT 0273 Large Neo-Sumerian Cylinder Seal
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Ur III-Period, 2112-2002 BC. A red jasper cylinder seal with presentation scene, accompanied by a scholarly note, which states: 'A goddess wearing a flounced robe and a multiple-horned head-dress stands with the left hand raised behind the worshipper. He, wearing a robe with fringed ends hanging down in a curve on either side (typical for the Ur III-Period!), holds his right arm bent near the right hip. On his left hand he is led by the goddess Lama who wears a flounced robe, facing an enthroned long bearded god, also in a flounced robe and with a multiple-horned head-dress. Behind him a vertical two lines inscription with the name and patronymic of the owner. Inscription: 1) A-ri-lum„?r-ilum (Sandhi!, „God is a hero.“), 2) DUMU I-x-ru-um-DIM (son of I-x-ru-um-d/tum.'; accompanied by a museum-quality impression. Cf. D. Collon, Catalogue of the Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals II. Akkadian, Post Akkadian, Ur III Periods, London, 1982, p.168-169, pl. LII, fig. 469, for the worshipper framed by two goddesses; for the personal name ?r-ilum, see AHw. 72a s.v. ?ru(m) III 1).46 grams, 40mm (1 1/2"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s; accompanied by geological report TL005243 by Dr Ronald Bonewitz; and a copy of a scholarly note, report number 154282.
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