SASSANIAN LAPIS LAZULI STAMP SEAL DEPICTING A WALKING PEGASUS

Ca. AD 250 - 600 A Sassanian stamp seal in mottled blue Lapis Lazuli depicting a walking Pegasus (winged horse) with dots filling the border.
Size: 15mm x 18.6mm; Weight: 6.6g
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collection, 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.

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Estimate: GBP 150 - 300