Bidspirit auction | Old Babylonian Stone Cylinder Seal

Old Babylonian Stone Cylinder Seal with Ishtar Presentation Scene - 2nd millennium B.C. With frieze depicting a king and a suppliant goddess approaching the goddess Ishtar and a faint two-lined cuneiform inscription; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 10.6 grams, 28 mm (1 in.). Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 April 2001, lot 504 (haematite) and 513 (part).with Petit Musée, Montreal, acquired at the above sale; thence by descent.Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman. [No Reserve]