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LOT 865:
SASANIAN STAMP SEAL DEPICTING SEATED MAN
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SASANIAN STAMP SEAL DEPICTING SEATED MAN
Ca. AD 200 - 400.
A Sasanian stamp seal depicting a stylised seated man on a throne holding a tablet. The seal has a globular body with a horizontally drilled hole. For similar see: Sasanian stamp seal in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, n. 73.
Size: 13mm x 13mm; Weight: 2g
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collection, 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
