Seal featuring a crouching, hunchbacked figure. On the back, a turtle imprint on the bouterolle. Jet. Sumerian art, Mari ?, c. 3200-2800 B.C. Height: 2.9 cm Provenance: From a copy of the collectors' notes, acquired from Koutoulakis in March 1955. Publication: DANMAVILLE, Jenny, "La Collection Thierry", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 1965, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 53, reproduced fig. 1. Indicated as "purchased from a Paris antique dealer as coming from Baghdad". Collection Nicole et Jean-Michel Thierry - lots 1 to 141.
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Seal featuring a crouching, hunchbacked figure. On the back, a turtle imprint on the bouterolle. Jet. Sumerian art, Mari ?, c. 3200-2800 B.C. Height: 2.9 cm Provenance: From a copy of the collectors' notes, acquired from Koutoulakis in March 1955. Publication: DANMAVILLE, Jenny, "La Collection Thierry", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 1965, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 53, reproduced fig. 1. Indicated as "purchased from a Paris antique dealer as coming from Baghdad". Collection Nicole et Jean-Michel Thierry - lots 1 to 141.

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€6,760
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30%
Seal featuring a crouching, hunchbacked figure. On the back, a turtle imprint on the bouterolle. Jet. Sumerian art, Mari ?, c. 3200-2800 B.C. Height: 2.9 cm Provenance: From a copy of the collectors' notes, acquired from Koutoulakis in March 1955. Publication: DANMAVILLE, Jenny, "La Collection Thierry", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 1965, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 53, reproduced fig. 1. Indicated as "purchased from a Paris antique dealer as coming from Baghdad". Collection Nicole et Jean-Michel Thierry - lots 1 to 141.
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ARCHAEOLOGY - Collection of N. and J.-M. Thierry & Collection of Monsieur X.
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