A Northern Mesopotamian Hematite Cylinder Seal
Sale 910 - Antiquities & Ethnographic Art
Nov 18, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$600 -
800
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$1,750
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Lot Description
A Northern Mesopotamian Hematite Cylinder Seal
Old Babylonian Period, Circa 19th–16th Century B.C.
Height 1 inch (2.5 cm).
Property from the Collection of Anne Gurewich Gordon, Bethesda, Maryland
Provenance:
Probably Dikran Kelekian Gallery, New York.
Acquired by Vladimir Gurewich, late 1940s or early 1950s; thence by descent.
(with signed statement from owner)
Note:
This presentation scene depicts a seated figure wearing a long gown. He is approached by a standing worshipper with an offering in his left hand. Behind the seated figure are two female attendants followed by a terminal with two confronted sphinxes, a horizontal guilloche, and five supplicants.
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