Interesting Figural stone stamp seal, Mesopotamian, 1st. mill. BC
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Stone: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1478202
Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Stone: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1478202
$235.00
An interesting and very attractive stamp seal with animal-handle, Western Mesopotamia, c. early 1st. mill. BC.
The seal finely carved black serpentine as a rectangular seal base upon which there's an animal standing. It looks like a dog to us. The seal is carved with a vivid depiction of a Bull with a smaller animal on it's back.
Size: 16 x 11 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine, nice redish dessert patina.
This seal was aquired 1991 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.
The seal finely carved black serpentine as a rectangular seal base upon which there's an animal standing. It looks like a dog to us. The seal is carved with a vivid depiction of a Bull with a smaller animal on it's back.
Size: 16 x 11 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine, nice redish dessert patina.
This seal was aquired 1991 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.
