Preface
My Scarab Collection
My Seal Collection
Scarab Gallery
Seal Gallery
Faked Or Authentic?
Fakes On Ebay
Fake Gallery
Bibliography
Contact / Links
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Damaged examples offered on Ebay for thousands of USDs. Note the identical overall appearance and the encrustations - from the same workshop ?
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These seals were offered by a German auction house. No. 783 is cut in the Mitanni "elaborate-style". The other seals imitate Neo-Assyrian scenes.
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...offered on Vcoins for USD 1750,- :-), note the fake cuneiform
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Let me make clear: all these Neo-Assyrian seals here are perfectly genuine. The seals on the right depict scenes which are reversed to the seals on the left. Sometimes a seal copied from a seal-impression indicates a fake but in antiquity many seals were made in workshops and copying from impressions was quite common.
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