EARLY NEO-BABYLONIAN STONE CYLINDER SEAL
Ca. 1100-600 BC.
An elaborately carved stone cylinder seal from the early Neo-Babylonian period. It depicts jumping and grazing ibexes and astral motifs, including star images. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Size: L:53mm / W:13mm ; 8.55g
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 400 - 800