Antiquities - ancient Amethyst seal with lion and griffin design

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Amethyst seal with lion and griffin design

£325

A very fine hemispherical seal carved from a piece of translucent amethyst crystal.

The seal is decorated with a complex janiform figure consisting of the conjoined and inverted fore-parts of a lion and a winged griffin. When the seal is turned upside down, the front-parts of one animal become the rear-parts of the other.

Achaemenid, c. 4th Century BC

Intact

Size: 1.2 x 0.75 cms

Ex. private collection, Winchester, UK. Acquired mid 20th Century.

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