NEO-ASSYRIAN CHALCEDONY CONOID

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NEO-ASSYRIAN CHALCEDONY CONOID

Period / Age: 8th - 7th Century BC

Provenance: Private English Collection, Ex Christie’s, Francesca Artuner, Brussels, 1992, P.N. Barbier, Belgium, 1981.

Dimensions:

Length: 2.2cm (0.87”)

With swirling veins of brown and blue-gray, the underside engraved with a bearded hero grappling with a rearing stag, the hero grasping the animal’s antlers in one hand, holding a mace in the other, a two-character device in the field to the right, on a groundline

ORIGIN: Assyrian Empire

CONDITION: Excellent