OLD ASSYRIAN STONE CYLINDER SEAL
Ca. 1800-1600 BC.
A nicely carved Old Assyrian grey stone cylinder seal from the early second millennium BC. It depicts an enthroned deity, a lion, an inverted dwarf, worshipers and astral images (eight-pointed star and lunar crescent). Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Size: L:23.7mm / W:12.7mm ; 6.04g
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market.
Estimate: GBP 600 - 1200