NEO-ASSYRIAN PERIOD BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL

Ca. 8th-7th century BC A black coloured cylinder seal, likely from the western periphery of the Neo-Assyrian empire (East Anatolia or Cyprus), 8th - 7th centuries BC. It depicts a winged sun disc (Shamash), a schematized life tree and a worshiper or priest. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Size: L:28.4mm / W:10.5mm ; 5.32g
Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s.

200
Estimate: GBP 300 - 600