A Mesopotamian Hematite Cylinder Seal

Old Babylonian Period, Circa 19th-16th Century B.C.

Height 1 1/4 inches (3 cm).

Property from the Collection of Anne Gurewich Gordon, Bethesda, Maryland

Provenance:

Probably Dikran Kelekian Gallery, New York.

Acquired by Vladimir Gurewich, late 1940s or early 1950s; thence by descent.

(with signed statement from owner)

Note:

This seal depicts a suppliant goddess wearing a horned headdress and tiered robe with arms raised in supplication standing beside a four-line cuneiform inscription in Akkadian that reads: Nabium-malik, son of Adad-hazir, servant of (the gods) Amurru and Lugalgudua.

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A Mesopotamian Hematite Cylinder Seal

Old Babylonian Period, Circa 19th-16th Century B.C.

Height 1 1/4 inches (3 cm).

Property from the Collection of Anne Gurewich Gordon, Bethesda, Maryland

Provenance:

Probably Dikran Kelekian Gallery, New York.

Acquired by Vladimir Gurewich, late 1940s or early 1950s; thence by descent.

(with signed statement from owner)

Note:

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