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Important Archaic Graeco-Persian Cornelian Scaraboid A kneeling king holding a dagger and bow. Hatched border. Late 6th - 5th Centuries BC. Height: 32.90 mm Width: 27.60 mm ex: private American collection; previously ex: private British collection Published: Antiquarium Ltd.; Ancient Treasures V (New York, 2007) p.15 Comparanda: Teissier, Beatrice ; Ancient Near Eastern cylinder seals from the Marcopoli collection (Berkeley, 1984) nos. 288, 291, 293, 294, 295 Near East Studies (NE Stud) 1979 v.38 n.4: Richard L. Zettler; "On the Chronological Range of Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Seals" figs: 3, 7, 9