Ca. 1000-600 BC.
Cylinder seal of faience. Large standing bird, rhomb behind head; quadruped at the gallop, two trees beneath; another smaller quadruped in the opposite direction, above it a fish. Condition good in part, the rest worn. Accompanied by a signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert.
Size: L:44.9mm / W:15.5mm ; 11.64g
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.