BACTRIAN DOUBLE STAMP SEAL

Ca. 1st millennium BC.
A Bactrian green stone double stamp seal. On the front it depicts a naturalistic lion and on the reverse it has an antelope. The seal has a flat body with a horizontally drilled hole. For similar see: Sasanian stamp seal in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, n. 174.
Size: 21mm x 21mm; Weight: 9g
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.