BRONZE AGE LAPIS LAZULI STAMP SEAL

Ca. 2400 - 2000 BC.
An engraved lapis lazuli stamp-seal. It depicts two figures, a human and a zebu bull facing each other. To the left, there is a third figure descending from the sky holding a bow. The seal has a rectangular cubed body with a horizontally drilled hole. For similar see: British museum Museum number 1992,1007.1.
Size: 19mm x 14mm; Weight: 4g
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.