MESOPOTAMIAN STONE CYLINDER SEAL - ORIGINAL LAMBERT REPORT
Ca. 3000 BC. Cylinder seal of brown stone. A frieze of wavey lines enclosing two big "fish" in the middle, to small "fish" top and bottom. Condition good. Accompanied by a signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert.Size: L:20.1mm / W:9.8mm ; 2.74gProvenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collections 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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Ca. 3000 BC. Cylinder seal of brown stone. A frieze of wavey lines enclosing two big "fish" in the middle, to small "fish" top and bottom. Condition good. Accompanied by a signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert.Size: L:20.1mm / W:9.8mm ; 2.74gProvenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collections 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.
