URARTIAN STONE CYLINDER SEAL
Ca. 9th-8th century BC.
A bell-shapped Urartian stamp seal with zigzag patterning on the sides and on the base from the early first millennium BC. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Size: L:34.2mm / W:18.9mm ; 16.68g
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 150 - 300