410, Lot: 1020. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Black serpentine cylinder seal. Provincial manufacture contemporary with the Old Babylonian Period, circa 1500 BC. Crude engraving depicts a central figure wearing
kaunakes standing with right hand raised between two supplicants. The supplicants face one another, while an uncertain device (pillar?) is between them.
Dimensions: 14x6mm. Intact.
Ex Hurst Gallery (5 March 1994), lot 39 (part of).