A group of Ancient Near Eastern seals and amulets Circa 3rd Millennium B.C. - 1st Millennium B.C. Including a Sumerian marble amulet of a recumbent sheep with curling horns, circa 2800-2600 B.C., 60mm long; an Akkadian white marble cylinder seal engraved with two heroes grappling with lions, with inscription: '...zah, barber', circa 2400-2300 B.C., 34mm high; the upper part of a Sumerian marble cylinder seal with linear design, circa 3000 B.C., 30mm high; a Syrian greystone cylinder seal engraved with birds, circa 2000-1700, 20mm; a Syrian blackstone cylinder seal, engraved with a tree, circa 1400-1100, 25mm high; a Syrian mottled stone stamp seal, circa 900-700 B.C., 18mm high; an eastern Mediterranean rectangular stamp seal with horned animal, circa 500-300 B.C. 22mm wide; and a necklace of beads and seals including an old Babylonian seal of black stone and another of orange stone and a Jemdet Nasr geometric seal; an intaglio, possibly Graeco-Persian; and a stamp seal possibly Aegean; and seven seals, Not Ancient (a lot)
A group of Ancient Near Eastern seals and amulets Circa 3rd Millennium B.C. - 1st Millennium B.C. Including a Sumerian marble amulet of a recumbent sheep with curling horns, circa 2800-2600 B.C., 60mm long; an Akkadian white marble cylinder seal engraved with two heroes grappling with lions, with inscription: '...zah, barber', circa 2400-2300 B.C., 34mm high; the upper part of a Sumerian marble cylinder seal with linear design, circa 3000 B.C., 30mm high; a Syrian greystone cylinder seal engraved with birds, circa 2000-1700, 20mm; a Syrian blackstone cylinder seal, engraved with a tree, circa 1400-1100, 25mm high; a Syrian mottled stone stamp seal, circa 900-700 B.C., 18mm high; an eastern Mediterranean rectangular stamp seal with horned animal, circa 500-300 B.C. 22mm wide; and a necklace of beads and seals including an old Babylonian seal of black stone and another of orange stone and a Jemdet Nasr geometric seal; an intaglio, possibly Graeco-Persian; and a stamp seal possibly Aegean; and seven seals, Not Ancient (a lot)
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