Thick Uruk period cylinder seal, Mesopotamia, 4th. mill. BC
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Stone: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1477026
Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Stone: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1477026
$375.00
Attractive thick cylinder seal in brownish black stone, Mesopotamia, 4th. mill. BC.
Finely carved with raised details with a cruciform / millsail pattern within a dotted border.
Size: 18 mm. wide and 20 mm.
Condition: Nice VF, some even wear.
This seal was aquired 1992 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
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 with raised details with a cruciform / millsail pattern within a dotted border.
Size: 18 mm. wide and 20 mm.
Condition: Nice VF, some even wear.
This seal was aquired 1992 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
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.
