South Arabian bronze monogram seal, ex. Longperier collection
W69£500.00
Available
AÂ rare openwork bronze stamp seal bearing a monogram in Musnad script reading “h t.”
Culture
South Arabian, 1st Century BC to 2nd Century AD
Condition
Intact as shown
Size
3 x 4.7 cms
Provenance
Ex. collection: Adrien Prévost de Longpérier, Paris, France (1816-1882). Longpérier was a prominent numismatist and archaeologist, he was curator of Antiquities at the Louvre from 1848 to 1870, and became president of the Society of Antiquaries of France in 1851.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrien_Pr%C3%A9vost_de_Longp%C3%A9rier
For information about this type of seal please see:
https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.SEC.5.144580?journalCode=sec
For a comparable seal in the Museum of Five Continents, Munich, please see:
https://onlinedatenbank-museum-fuenf-kontinente.de/detail/collection/8e9f9a0a-f6a6-4958-92e5-881521508dc0