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THBLate Uruk South Arabian Stone Stamp Seal Bead
Lot 67
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Louisville, CO 80027
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Middle East, probably South Arabia, Late Uruk Period, ca. 3400 to 3100 BCE. A rare, fascinating, cylindrical black stone stamp seal bead, pierced through vertically for suspension, its body wider than it is tall. Its surface is incised with symbols that resemble both the South Arabian alphabet that was primarily used in the Sabaean and Minaean kingdoms of the southern Arabian peninsula and also highly abstract art observed on a cylinder seal excavated from Madinet Zayed in what is now the UAE. These symbols feature dots and straight lines, repeated all the way around the body of the bead; the dots probably represent heads and the lines the limbs and torsos of figures. Cylinder seals seem to have been rarely used in this region, and have been mainly found in places like Failaka that were close to southern Mesopotamia and were either engaged in trade north or even under Mesopotamian political control. Size: 0.8" W x 0.25" H (2 cm x 0.6 cm); 2.8" H (7.1 cm) on included custom stand.
See a very similar example, mentioned above, from Madinet Zayed in Potts (2010), "Cylinder seals and their use in the Arabian Peninsula", Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Vol. 21: 20-40, pg. 23, figure 1.
Provenance: private Zaveloff collection, Lakewood, New Jersey, USA, acquired before 2004
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#151467Light wear on surface commensurate with age. Light deposits in the lower profile areas. Great preservation of motifs. Comes with modern clay rollout.Condition
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