Description:

Sasanian Empire. Ancient Near East. Ca. Late 6th - early 7th century A.D. Six different pottery bullae, with center stamp impressions including a bull with inscription and small stamp seal impression, another with two winged horses with tree and inscription, a winged horse with inscription, a deer with large antlers, a profile head of a king with inscription with an unusual rectangular small family crest stamp seal impression, and finally a lion with inscription and a small stamp seal impression. The bull has general border roughness and losses. The double winged horses has an ancient border chip. The winged horse is missing a portion of the outer border rim, the deer has some ancient loss to the outer rim, the king and the lion are intact. Size: 1-1/4"D. to 1-3/4"D.

Provenance: Private NYC. collection, acquired from Sumer Gallery, NYC., Henry Anavian, 1980's & Muhammad Rahim.

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