High Quality banded agate stone scaraboid seal, Neo-Babylonian
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Stone: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1483511
Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Stone: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1483511
$450.00
A banded agate stone seal, polished to a perfect oval scaraboid shape with a slightly pointed center, Neo-Babylonian, c. 8th-6th. century BC.
The stone with particularly nice patterns of multi-layered bands. On the base it's carved with a worshipping priest standing before the alter of the principal deity Marduk.
Size: 20 mm. long and 17 mm. wide.
Condition: Extremely fine, signs of light ancient use and gloss with wear around the edges of the horisontical piercing.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection (here incorrectly described as achaemenid 6th.-5th. century) and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp and cylinder seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic civilizations in the Near East / Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Bactrian
The stone with particularly nice patterns of multi-layered bands. On the base it's carved with a worshipping priest standing before the alter of the principal deity Marduk.
Size: 20 mm. long and 17 mm. wide.
Condition: Extremely fine, signs of light ancient use and gloss with wear around the edges of the horisontical piercing.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection (here incorrectly described as achaemenid 6th.-5th. century) and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp and cylinder seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic civilizations in the Near East / Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Bactrian
