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Tabloid with a Winged Horse

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Stamp seal with a square seal plate and a convex back carved with wide grooves. On the seal surface there is a crouching winged animal with long, curved horns, framed by ladder pattern designs.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Hans Silvius von Aulock Istanbul; sold [through Christie's New York June 13 2000 no.522] to Harvard University Art Museums. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Leslie Cheek Jr. and Purchase through the generosity of Sol Rabin and the Marian H. Phinney Fund
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Title: Tabloid with a Winged Horse
Description:
Stamp seal with a square seal plate and a convex back carved with wide grooves.
On the seal surface there is a crouching winged animal with long, curved horns, framed by ladder pattern designs.

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