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Choice quality Babylonian cylinder seal, dating to the late 3rd. millenium BC.
A major deity, possibly Ishtar, seated on a throne, receiving a minor deity. Symbols in the fields, perhaps and alter, a crescent, a star and a rising snake (?).
Size: 20x14 mm.
Ex Swedish private collection - purchased during the 1950s at Viktoria Lindströms Antikhandel, Stockholm. Her business card in the collection together with notes. Ex late 19th. century collection, note the old custom made brass mount with collection number (letter) hand-chiseled.
Condition: Superb!
Antiquities
Ancient Near East
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