Antiquities

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1418. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Stone cylinder seals. Early Dynastic Period to Achaemenid Period, 3rd millennium-circa 400 BC. Cylinder seals of various stones, including the following designs: a) Two rampant lions(?). Height: 3.9 cm. b) Two rampant griffins. Height: 2.2cm. c) Two seated griffins. Height: 2.7 cm. d) Standing figure presenting Nike(?) to enthroned figure, being fanned by attendant. Height: 2.3 cm. e) Winged ibex(?) surrounded by standing figures; sun or star, crescent, and winged sun disk in upper field. Height: 3.4 cm. f) Indistinct design. Height: 2.1 cm. g) Standing figures. Height: 1.4 cm. h) Undulating line. Height: 1.6 cm. Lot also includes: i) a bead with geometric decoration from an uncertain period. Length: 2.0 cm. Fine to Good conditon, some surface damage. Some appear to have been recut. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Nine objects (9) in lot.