Auction 001 Part 3
TimeLine Auctions Ancient Art, Antiquities, Antiques, Natural History
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Mar 7, 2024
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- Egyptian (Lots 451-524)
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LOT 1105:
Urartu Alabaster Stamp Seal
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£100 - £140
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Urartu Alabaster Stamp Seal
8th-7th century B.C. Bifacial round seal with mythical creatures, likely winged ibexes; pierced hole for suspension. Cf. for the iconography Sass, B., Uehlinger, C., Studies in the iconography of northwest semitic inscribed seals: Proceedings of a symposium held in Fribourg on April 17-20, 1991, Zurich, 1993, p.59, fig.16. 3.36 grams, 16 mm (5/8 in.).
Ex London, UK, collection, before 1988.
Animal-headed creatures are often winged bird-headed figures with human body in the Urartu and Northern-Syrian seals of ‘dnpl? ‘bd ‘mndb type, but often winged, apparently ibex-headed figures appear on the seals of the type bqšt bt ‘bdyrh. The ibex-headed figures might belong to same group of semi-divine beings visible on the Assyrian art.
