Neo-Hittite stone stamp seal with winged Griffin, c. 1100-800 BC
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Stone: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1472638
Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Stone: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1472638
$195.00
Scarce Anatolian or Syrian square stone seal with tall handle and a depiction of a Griffin or Sphinx, Neo-Hittite states, Early 1st. millenium BC.
Finely carved seal with an elaborate handle and some great details.
Size: 16 mm. wide and 11-12 mm. tall
Condition: Extremely fine.
Comes with a hard wax impression.
Reff. See Ashmolean collection AN1913.58 for a similar style seal, attributed to Aleppo, Syria. Hogarth, D.G., Hittite seals - with Particular Reference to the Ashmolean collection (Oxford, 1920), 149
Buchanan, Briggs, and P. R. S. Moorey, Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, iii: The Iron Age Stamp Seals (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), 214
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic civilizations in the Near East / Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Bactrian.
Finely carved seal with an elaborate handle and some great details.
Size: 16 mm. wide and 11-12 mm. tall
Condition: Extremely fine.
Comes with a hard wax impression.
Reff. See Ashmolean collection AN1913.58 for a similar style seal, attributed to Aleppo, Syria. Hogarth, D.G., Hittite seals - with Particular Reference to the Ashmolean collection (Oxford, 1920), 149
Buchanan, Briggs, and P. R. S. Moorey, Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, iii: The Iron Age Stamp Seals (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), 214
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic civilizations in the Near East / Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Bactrian.
