MESOPOTAMIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL

Ca. 2700-2300 BC
A black stone cylinder seal depicting a naked hero fighting gazelles and lions. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Size: 2.1mm x 14.5mm; Weight: 9.16g
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; formerly in a central London family collections 1990s; 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 600 - 900