Lot 597 Western Asiatic Pre-Achaemenid Large Silver Bowl for Ampirish, King of Samati. 6th century BC. A large sheet silver dish with chamfered rim; accompanied by an original old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: Ancient Iranian Large Silver Dish with Inscription 42.5cm. diam., 9.5 cm. high. This is an extremely ...
Estimate: £18,000 - £24,000
Lot 598 Western Asiatic Neo-Sumerian Silver Human-Headed Bull Statuette. 22nd century BC. A substantial silver statuette of a human-headed bull divinity with head turned to the left, wearing a ribbed headdress, hanks of hair framing the face with square-cut beard, herringbone-patterned bands to the back and flanks; traces of parcel-gilding; peg to the underside for attachment. 565 grams, 77mm (3"") Very fine ...
Estimate: £20,000 - £30,000
Lot 599 Western Asiatic Achaemenid Gilt Silver Lion Mount. 6th-4th century BC. A sheet silver mount with repoussé ornament comprising: outer ring of leaves and pellets encircling a parcel gilt mane with fur detailing, central lion's mask with open mouth and exposed fangs; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 727 grams, 21 x 23.5cm including stand (8 1/4 x 9 1/4"") Fine condition, some restoration to the ...
Estimate: £15,000 - £20,000
Lot 600 Western Asiatic Sassanian Facet-Cut Glass Cup. 4th-6th century AD. A green glass bell-shaped cup with teardrop facets to the body and discoid to the underside and base. 257 grams, 12cm (4 3/4"") Very fine condition. Property of a North London lady; formerly with Christies, London, 2 April 2014, lot 187; previously gifted from her father's collection; formerly with a Mayfair gallery, London, UK; previously ...
Estimate: £8,000 - £10,000
Lot 601 Western Asiatic Neo-Sumerian Cylinder Seal for Temple Priest of King Shu-sin of Der. Ur III, King Shu-sin, 1972-1964 BC. A green and purple serpentine(?"") cylinder seal with two columns of cuneiform text 'priest of temple of Der is your servant', scene depicting a tree and seated figure in flounced robe with horned crown facing a similar figure stand, horned serpent between, third robed figure to ...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Lot 602 Western Asiatic Elamite Amethyst Cylinder Seal for Shuk-Kuku Son of Rab-Baba. 19th-16th century BC. A carved amethyst cylinder seal with figural frieze and owner's inscription; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and typed and signed scholarly note issued by W.G. Lambert, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham 1970-1993, which states: Cylinder Seal of Pale Amethyst 25 x 15 ...
Estimate: £1,200 - £1,700
Lot 603 Western Asiatic Neo Babylonian Cylinder Seal with Winged Gazelles and Two Ishara Scorpions. 800-539 BC. A red carnelian cylinder seal with with two winged gazelles in an antithetical pose and two scorpions, the scorpion was from late Kassite times the associated animal of Iš?ara, the goddess of love and war (like Ištar/Inana), also she is associated with extispicy, or else appears to be a mother goddess ...
Estimate: £250 - £350
Lot 604 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cylinder Seal with Royal Worshipping Scene and God Amurru. 18th-16th century BC. A haematite cylinder seal with a figure in royal posture, wearing a pointed had, faces the god Amurru (Sumerian Martu, representing a personification of the nomadic peoples of the desert, in the Bible called Amorites), who holds in the right hand his crook symbol; between them is a small ...
Estimate: £250 - £350
Lot 605 Western Asiatic Old Syrian Cylinder Seal with Lion Among Caprides, Rabbits and Birds. 20th-16th century BC. A feldspar cylinder seal, the scene divided into three horizontal registers: in the upper a crouching lion with narrow waist, of slight build back and mighty upper part of the body looks to the right at a group of four caprides and he hits with one paw after the throat of the left one of both ...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 606 Western Asiatic Babylonian Cylinder Seal with Sacrifice Scene. 1st millennium BC. A hematite cylinder seal engraved with a repeating scene in two registers; to the top a naked kneeling male holding a dagger over a grazing bull with seated hare behind, to the rear of the figure a standing hawk with wings outspread; lower register with grazing bull and ibex with seated lion between. 6.65 grams, 22mm ...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 607 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cylinder Seal For Servant of the God Ilabrat. 1900-1530 BC. A black jasper cylinder seal with panel of text flanked by two opposed figures, suppliant goddesses standing on either side of an inscription, on a base line; seal inscription: 1 dsuen(EN.ZU)-im-gur-ra-an-ni 2 dumu ìr-dnin-šubur 3 ìr dnin-šubur Sîn-imguranni, son of Warad-Ilabrat, servant of Ilabrat. 18 grams, ...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Lot 608 Western Asiatic Akkadian Cylinder Seal with God Enlil. 23rd-22nd century BC. A mottled agate cylinder seal with frieze depicting the god Enlil seated in a barque with water emitting from his shoulders, robed figures with horned headdresses, one with fronds stepping on a dog, one kneeling with a standard, two with raised hands. 35 grams, 32mm (1 1/4"") Very fine condition. Property of a London gentleman; ...
Estimate: £800 - £1,000
Lot 609 Western Asiatic Assyrian Cylinder Seal for Scribe Ur-Banitim. Ur III Period, 2112-2004 BC. A calcite alabaster cylinder seal, contemporary copy with frieze of a seated goddess in flounced robe confronted by a standing figure in similar costume holding the arm of a third figure in a loose fringed mantle, three columns of hieroglyphs behind reading: 1. UR-dDÙ-TIM Ur-Ban?tim(?), 2. DUB.SAR scribe, 3 ...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Lot 610 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cylinder Seal From the House of the King. 1900-1530 BC. A serpentinite cylinder seal with frieze and cuneiform inscription, the god Nergal holding in his raised left hand his double-headed lion-sceptre and in the drooping right hand his khopesh while trampling an enemy lying on his back, facing two worshipping gods; the first grasping the defensively raised hand of the ...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Lot 611 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cylinder Seal God Nerigal and Goddess Mamitum. 1900-1530 BC. A haematite cylinder seal with figural scene and two columns of cuneiform text: the suppliant goddess Lama (with necklace counterweight"") and a kilted priest with holy-water font and aspergillum face the ascending Sun god holding his saw in his right hand and resting his right foot on a trapezoidal chequer-board ...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Lot 612 Western Asiatic Kassite Cylinder Seal with Goddess Šala. 1530-1150 BC. A red-white mottled agate cylinder seal with a cross above a seated(?"") person, the right hand holding a barley stalk, ear of corn below, by this symbol we can identify this person as the goddess Šala; this agricultural deity was either the wife of the god Adad (IŠKUR), who embodied the power of storms, or the wife of Dag?n (in ...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Lot 613 Western Asiatic Cylinder Seal with Gryphons. 1st millennium BC. A lapis lazuli cylinder seal, a contemporary copy with frieze of two antithetic winged and horned lions, the left one before a king or god on a throne. 5.40 grams, 22mm (1"") Fine condition. Property of a North West London gentleman; formerly with a central London gallery in 1990.
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 614 Western Asiatic Akkadian Figural Cylinder Seal. 18th-17th century BC. A carved banded agate cylinder seal with frieze depicting a seated bearded figure in flounced robe holding a cup towards a standing figure in a robe with herringbone pattern, a second figure in flounced robe, a third figure in tasselled robe, lamp with corrugated stand. 5.35 grams, 22mm (1"") Very fine condition. Property of a London ...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 615 Western Asiatic Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal with Winged Beasts. 9th-8th century BC. A carved black hardstone cylinder seal with a pair of winged beasts and plants, possibly a contemporary copy; accompanied by a section of the old scholarly notes on a collection of 61 seals, typed and unsigned, by W. G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Mid-west ...
Estimate: £250 - £350
Lot 616 Western Asiatic Old Akkadian Cylinder Seal with Combat Scene. 2334-2000 BC. A large, porous rhyolite cylinder seal engraved with three contest scenes of wrestling between two men and a bull man against a bull, a lion and a buffalo. 37 grams, 35mm (1 1/2"") Very fine condition. Property of a London gentleman; formerly in an important London collection; formed before 1990.
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 617 Western Asiatic Jemdet Nasr Cylinder Seal with Figures. Early 3rd millennium BC. A white marble cylinder seal with frieze depicting two opposed figures holding a staff and a third with arms spread holding a hammer and sceptre, star above. 11 grams, 33mm (1 1/4"") Fine condition. Property of a London gentleman; acquired London art market, 1970-1980. See Collon, D. First Impressions. Cylinder Seals ...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 618 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cylinder Seal for Munanum son of Nurrubum. 19th-16th century BC. A banded agate cylinder seal comprising: a robed king, wearing a cap and raising one hand, faces the ascending Sun god who holds his saw toothed knife vertically and rests his foot on a rectangular mountain; the inscription: 1 Mu-na-nu-um M?n?num (M?n?num: 'The little caterpillar'"") 2 DUMU Nu-ru-bu-um ...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Lot 619 Western Asiatic Kassite Cylinder Bead with Three Water-Distributing Goddesses. 16th-12th century BC. A banded agate cylinder seal, the scene divided into three horizontal registers: in the middle there are three kneeling naked goddesses with the hands crossed before the breast from which water streams pour together into an aryballos on the ground between the goddesses, also from their shoulders run ...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 620 Western Asiatic Goddess Ishtar Stamp Seal. 2nd millennium BC. A large rectangular chalcedony bead, rounded to the top and flat to the base; engraved with the image of the goddess Ishtar, standing naked with hands under breasts and hair falling to shoulders. 71 grams, 53mm (2"") Very fine condition. Property of a London gentleman; acquired by his father in the 1970s; thence by descent.
Estimate: £1,200 - £2,400
Lot 621 Western Asiatic Elamite Bitumen Seal. 2nd-1st millennium BC. A discoid seal impression in bitumen depicting a central facing bearded mask surrounded by herringbone bands framing a frieze of ibexes and other animals; mounted on a custom-made stand. 324 grams, 14.5cm including stand (5 3/4"") Fine condition, cracked. Very rare. Property of a London gallery; formerly with Moses Antiques.
Estimate: £700 - £900
Lot 622 Western Asiatic Stamp Seal Pendant. 2nd millennium BC. A carved serpentine stamp seal with ribbed ring and stepped rectangular base; intaglio scene with figures and beasts. 4.07 grams, 18mm (3/4"") Fine condition. Property of a London gentleman; acquired by his father in the 1970s; thence by descent.
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 623 Western Asiatic Aramaic Stamp Seal. 1st millennium BC. A discoid carnelian stamp seal with two registers divided by a baseline, frieze of two kneeling sheep(?"") above and two horse(?"") heads below, Aramaic script between, facing bird with spread wings, ropework border; pierced for suspension. 5.16 grams, 21mm (3/4"") Extremely fine condition. Property of a London gentleman; acquired by his father ...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 624 Western Asiatic South Arabian Ring with Stamp Seal. Late 1st millennium BC. A serpentine dome-shaped stamp seal engraved to the underside with two figures copulating, plant motif to the top; bronze suspension ring looped through seal. 8.14 grams, 25mm (1"") Fine condition. Property of a London gentleman; acquired by his father in the 1970s; thence by descent.
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 625 Western Asiatic Neo-Babylonian Inscribed Brick. 7th-6th century BC. A large square ceramic slab with recessed square central panel divided into ten rectangular zones each with impressed Babylonian cuneiform text; bitumen to the back and sides. 9.1 kg, 31.5cm (12 1/2"") Fine condition, corner chipped. Property of an American gentleman; previously acquired 1970s-1980s. A number of these building bricks ...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Lot 626 Western Asiatic Sumerian Silver Balanced Merchant's Account Cuneiform Tablet. Ur III, dated to 2050-2020 BC. The lower left-hand portion of a large Sumerian bifacial administrative tablet from the town of Umma (modern Tell Jokha), with cuneiform script detailing the government's inventory of aromatics, each item given a value in silver; accompanied by a two page translation provided and signed by ...
Estimate: £800 - £1,000
Lot 627 Western Asiatic - Sumerian King Ibbi-Sin Royal Messenger Tablet. UrIII, dated to 2027 BC. A clay pillow-shaped messenger tablet from an important palace archive of the Sumerian city Iri-Sa?rig, dated to 2027 BC, with cuneiform text on both sides: 1 roasted mutton, 5 sila soup Ur-suen, chancellor’s assistant when he came for Nana’s barley; 3 sila soup, 2 fish Laqipum, cup bearer, royal messenger when ...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Lot 628 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cuneiform Legal Document. 2000-1700 BC. A baked clay rectangular tablet with lines of cuneiform inscription to both sides and top edge; accompanied by an original old scholarly note, hand written and unsigned by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Old Babylonian legal document c.2000-1700 B.C.'. 276 grams, ...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Lot 629 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cuneiform Administrative Document. 1800-1600 BC. A baked clay rectangular tablet with lines of cuneiform inscription to both sides and top edge; accompanied by an original old scholarly note, hand written and unsigned by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Old Babylonian administrative document, c.1800-1600 ...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 630 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cuneiform Legal Document. 1900-1600 BC. A baked clay rectangular tablet with lines of cuneiform inscription to both sides and top edge; accompanied by an original old scholarly note, hand written and unsigned by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Old Babylonian legal document, c. 1900-1600 B.C.'. 68 grams, ...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Lot 631 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Circular Cuneiform Legal or Administrative Document. 1900-1700 BC. A baked clay plano-convex discoid tablet with lines of cuneiform inscription to both faces; accompanied by an original old scholarly note, hand written and unsigned by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Legal/Administrative document. Old Babylonian ...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Lot 632 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cuneiform Legal Document. 2000-1700 BC. A baked clay rectangular tablet with lines of cuneiform inscription to both sides and top edge; accompanied by an original old scholarly note, hand written and unsigned by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Old Babylonian legal document c. 2000-1700 B.C.'. 166 grams, ...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Lot 633 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cuneiform Legal Document. 2000-1700 BC. A baked clay rectangular tablet with lines of cuneiform inscription to both sides and top edge; accompanied by an original old scholarly note, hand written and unsigned by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Old Babylonian legal document c. 2000-1700 B.C.'. 190 grams, ...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 634 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cuneiform Administrative Document. 2000-1700 BC. A baked clay rectangular tablet with lines of cuneiform inscription to both sides and top edge; accompanied by an original old scholarly note, hand written and unsigned by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Old Babylonian legal document, c. 2000-1700 B.C.' ...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Lot 635 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cuneiform Administrative Document. 2050-1900 BC. A baked clay rectangular tablet with lines of cuneiform inscription to both sides and top edge; accompanied by an original old scholarly note, hand written and unsigned by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Administrative document, Ur III or early Old Babylonian, ...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Lot 636 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cuneiform Administration Document. 2000-1700 BC. A baked clay rectangular tablet with lines of cuneiform inscription to both sides and top edge; accompanied by an original old scholarly note, hand written and unsigned by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Old Babylonian administration document, c.2000-1600 ...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Lot 637 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian Cuneiform Administrative Document for King Ammi-ditana. Circa 1700 BC. A baked clay rectangular tablet with lines of cuneiform inscription to both sides and top edge; accompanied by an original old scholarly note, hand written and unsigned by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Old Babylonian legal/administrative ...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Lot 638 Western Asiatic Sumerian Round Cuneiform Tablet. Ur III, 22nd - 21st century BC. A plano-convex ceramic block with incised cuneiform text to the flat underside and part of the domed upper. 131 grams, 67mm (2 3/4"") Fine condition. Property of a London gentleman; previously in the collection of the late Professor Geoffrey Wilson, Warwickshire, UK.
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 639 Western Asiatic Old Babylonian School Student Cuneiform Tablet. 20th-17th century BC. A rare school exercise tablet with cuneiform writing in large characters inscribed on one side. 238 grams, 85mm (3 1/4"") Fine condition. Property of a Sussex gentleman; acquired from Ancient Art, London, UK. These tablets are always this shape, round, nearly flat on one side and convex on the other. Type IV tablets, ...
Estimate: £250 - £350
Lot 640 Western Asiatic Cuneiform Cone. 3rd millennium BC. A baked clay cone with upper section with impressed lines of cuneiform text. 128 grams, 14.5cm (5 3/4"") Fine condition, repaired. Property of a London gentleman; acquired in the 1970s.
Estimate: £300 - £400
Lot 641 Western Asiatic Sassanian Inscribed Stamp Seal with Lion's Head. 3rd-7th century AD. A chalcedony stamp seal with domed body; engraved to the underside with a facing lion head, wings beneath and Pahlavi script to the top. 7.43 grams, 21mm (3/4"") Extremely fine condition. Property of a North London lady; gifted from her father's collection; formerly with a Mayfair gallery, London, UK; previously acquired ...
Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500
Lot 642 Western Asiatic Sassanian Inscribed Stamp Seal with Hand. 3rd-7th century AD. A carnelian stamp seal with domed body; engraved to the underside with a hand with ruffled collar. 5.68 grams, 19mm (3/4"") Extremely fine condition. Property of a North London lady; gifted from her father's collection; formerly with a Mayfair gallery, London, UK; previously acquired in the 1980s. See Gyselen, R. Sasanian ...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Lot 643 Western Asiatic Sassanian Inscribed Stamp Seal with Winged Bull. 3rd-7th century AD. An agate stamp seal with domed body; engraved to the underside with a winged bull, Pahlavi script to the edge. 6.15 grams, 18mm (3/4"") Extremely fine condition. Property of a North London lady; gifted from her father's collection; formerly with a Mayfair gallery, London, UK; previously acquired in the 1980s. See ...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,400
Lot 644 Western Asiatic Sassanian Inscribed Stamp Seal with Script. 3rd-7th century AD. A chalcedony stamp seal with domed body; the underside engraved with a winged stag with Pahlavi script to the edge. 10 grams, 25mm (1"") Extremely fine condition, tiny chips to piercing. Property of a North London lady; gifted from her father's collection; formerly with a Mayfair gallery, London, UK; previously acquired ...
Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500
Lot 645 Western Asiatic Sassanian Stamp Seal with Lion and Deer. 3rd-7th century AD. An agate stamp seal engraved to the underside with a lion attacking a deer. 1.33 grams, 14mm (1/2"") Extremely fine condition. Property of a North London lady; gifted from her father's collection; formerly with a Mayfair gallery, London, UK; previously acquired in the 1980s. See Gyselen, R. Sasanian Seals and Sealings in ...
Estimate: £250 - £350
Lot 646 Western Asiatic Sassanian Figural Seal Bead. 3rd-7th century AD. A chalcedony bead engraved with three standing figures, one holding a staff, bird and quadruped to the front, two lines of Pahlavi script. 3.39 grams, 14mm (1/2"") Extremely fine condition. Property of a North London lady; gifted from her father's collection; formerly with a Mayfair gallery, London, UK; previously acquired in the 1980s ...
