English & European Ceramics & Glass - 13th September 2011
Lot 59
A Syrian limestone scaraboid seal 8th - 7th century BC
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £380
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Description
A Syrian limestone scaraboid seal 8th - 7th century BC, carved with a stylized lion with tail curved over his back, an impression of the same, and an Etruscan lapis lazuli scaraboid seal, 5th - 4th century BC, carved in the Egyptian style, 2cm. (3)
Provenance: the limestone seal from the Leo Mildenberg collection.
Literature: the limestone seal illustrated in Alan S Walker, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Part III, p.99, fig. III, 150.
