371, Lot: 1217. Estimate $200. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Steatite cylinder seal. Syrian, 2nd millennium BC. Crudely engraved image of a figure seated left before a plant. To right, figure standing facing and, on top of a stack of goods, possibly a smaller second figure. Height: 22mm. Intact. Cf. Ashmolean (“Provincial Styles”), p. 160-4 for discussion.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.