EARLY NEO-BABYLONIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL
Ca. 8th-7th century BC or later.
A finely carved Neo-Babylonian/Chaldean cylinder seal with kingly figures and deities (Arwium on the gazelle and Adad on the bull). Several religious astral symbols (six-pointed star, lunar crescent, two-winged sun disk) in the exergue. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Size: L:42mm / W:20mm ; 32.05g
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 1500 - 3000