OLD BABYLONIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL

Ca. 1800-1600 BC
It depicts a naked goddess, a royal hero and a deity. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Size: L:17.1mm / W:9.1mm ; 3.51g
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