Lot no. 247
COLLECTION OF CENTRAL ASIAN STONE SEALS WITH STYLISED ANIMALS.
Ca. 3100 - 2900 BC.
A collection of three stone stamp seals, including, from left to right: a dark green rectangular seal drilled laterally and engraved with a frontal bird with outspread wings; a blue wedge-shaped seal with fields of drilled pellets; and a cross-shaped seal carved with a raptor in spread-wing pose, the reverse with a sinuous beast.
For similar see: S. Salvadori, Early Bactrian Objects in private collections, Fig. 47.
Size: 8.1-20.4mm x 7.8-20.5mm; Weight: 8.08g
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old London collection formed in the 1980s.
Pictures credits: Contact organization
Archaeology
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