LOT 1322 Sumer Cylinder Seal with Spiders
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4th-3rd millennium BC. A waisted jasper cylinder seal with spider frieze; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and typed and signed scholarly note issued by W.G. Lambert, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder Seal; of Brown Stone 11.5 x 15 mm. This has strongly incurving sides on which are engraved two spiders forming a frieze. This [sic] seal dates to c. 3000 B.C. and comes from Sumer, south-west Iran or an adjacent area. It is one of the less common types of its period and save for one chip is in fine condition.' 3.49 grams, 14mm (1/2"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; item number W-490; academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s; accompanied by an original typed and signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert.
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