EARLY ELAMITE LAPIS LAZULI CYLINDER SEAL

Ca. 3000 BC
A lapis lazuli cylinder seal. It depicts seated and standing figures interspersed by crosses and triangles. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Size: L:39.5mm / W:20.2mm ; 30.3g
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.
Estimate: GBP 400 - 600