COLLECTION OF NEAR EASTERN STONE SEALS AND AMULETS

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Ca. 3rd - 2nd millennium BC. A collection of stone seals, amulets and beads, including, from left to right: a cream shell zoomorphic plaque with drilled circular ornament; a buff rectangular plaque with ring-and-dot motifs; a pale lozenge-shaped plaque with two ring-and-dot drillings; a rounded pebble-form piece; an elongated pendant with a drilled suspension hole; a red-brown plaque engraved with a striding figure; a pale cylindrical stamp seal with a pierced suspension lug and incised figures; a mottled green and black lobed amulet; a blue-green teardrop bead with a central perforation; further plaques and spacers with ring-and-dot drillings; a short cylindrical bead; an orange-brown spool-shaped piece; and a dark grey rounded bead. Size: 10-75mm x 8-23mm; Weight: 100g Provenance: Private Belgium Collection; ex Private English Collection, previously acquired on European market in 1960s.

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