A Syro-Palestinian black chlorite cylinder seal

A Syro-Palestinian black chlorite cylinder seal, c. 1500 - 1000 BC, depicting a pair of standing men with rampant animals; infilling marks around. L: 20 mm. Ex California Museum of Art de-accession.

A Levantine black chlorite cylinder seal, c. 1200 – 1000 BC, depicting 2 figures standing near a thicket, one holding a lance; in field, a fish. L: 2.8cm. Ex California Museum of Ancient Art De-Acce

A Levantine black chlorite cylinder seal, c. 1400 – 1000 BC, depicting a bull, standing man and uncertain figures within a dentate borders. L. 1.85cm. Ex California Museum of Ancient Art.

A Levantine black chlorite cylinder seal, c. 1400 – 1000 BC, with a frieze of walking men, two with arms raised, one holding a staff, in field a tree and a star. L: 2.2 cm. Ex California Museum of A

Syro-Canaanite, ca. mid to late 2nd millennium BC. A Levantine black-coloured cylinder seal. It depicts various animals (a horse, a lion, a scorpion and likely a gazelle) and floral elements. Studied

including a black staetite (?) seal, probably Babylonian / Assyrian depicting two figures attending a third figure seated on a throne, 1-3/8 in.; a haematite (?) seal depicting horses passant, 7/8 in.

Dimension: 51x14mm New - Produced within the last 20 years Vintage - Over 20 years of age but less than 100 years of age Antique - Over 100 years of age but less than 500 years of age Ancient - Over 5

An Akkadian black stone cylinder seal Circa 2300-2200 B.C. Depicting a Contest Scene with a male figure fighting a bull, a scorpion behind them in the field, two further animals on their hind legs fi

A large Mesopotamian black steatite cylinder seal, c. 2300 - 2200 BC, depicting a hero, possibly Gilgamesh, engaged with two pairs of lions attacking rampant human-headed animals. Nicely detailed with

2nd-1st millennium B.C. Polished haematite cylinder with incuse frieze depicting a standing profile human figure in flounced kilt and mesh tunic brandishing a dagger towards a rearing ibex, with two s

A choice early Dynastic black serpentine cylinder seal, c. 2900 - 2350 BC, with a detailed depiction of three deer, one of them winged, walking in a procession, symbols in the field around them. Excel

Near East / the Levant, Assyria, ca. 1500 BCE. A round, black stone cylinder seal whose body depicts a procession of men and women, all wearing skirts and elaborate, differentiated headdresses. The bo

Mesopotamian Akkadian Style Black Stone Cylinder Seal With Gilgamesh. Size 34 x 20 mm. Carved black stone cylinder seal in the Akkadian Style contest scene: Bearded head of a man in Bull body (Gilgame

An Ubaid black chlorite stamp seal, Mesopotamia, c. 4500 – 4000 BC, hemispherical body with drilled hole for suspension, on base a central groove dividing triangles and lines. Very well-preserved an

Ca. 1800-1600 BC.It depicts a deity holding a lightning bundle being approsched by a human or divine figure. An eight-pointed star and a standard are found in the exergue. A fragmentary cuneiform insc

Ca. 3000 BC. Cylinder seal of black stone. Frieze of three waking quadrupeds with items above their backs. Condition fair. Accompanied by a signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert. S

Ca. 1900-1600 BC. A nicely carved black stone Levantine cylinder seal. It depicts standing worshipers (upright and inverted), a life tree mounted by an eightpointed star (Ishtar) and a lunar crescent

Second Isin Dynasty, Ca. 1150-1050 BC.The top and bottom of the sides are surrounded with hatched triangles as borders. The design between them shows a sacred tree in the middle and to each side a rea

A nice Uruk/Jemdat Nasr black chlorite stamp seal, c. 3300 – 3000 BC, ovoid with longitudal drill for suspension, on back a central bull’s head with goats on either side; various symbols as fill.

A northern Syrian black steatite cylinder seal, 2nd Millennium BC, depicting a standing figure with hand raised next to a facing winged animal, a scorpion and a pellet between them. L: 18mm. Ex Northe

A North Syrian black steatite cylinder seal, 2nd Millennium BC, depicting a male figure standing next to winged deity or altar, a pair of birds opposite. 23mm. Ex Los Angeles private collection.

Ancient Near East, Assyrian Empire, ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. A black stone cylinder seal drilled through for suspension and / or ease of rolling that depicts two animals interacting with two sta

Sumerian Black Limestone Cylinder Seal, Mesopotamia Early Dynastic III, ca. 2400-2300 B.C. Carved with rampant crossed animals in battle. Pierced for suspension. Age blackened patina. Size 7/8 in H. (

Ca. 2200-2100 BC. A black stone cylinder seal with a boat laden with cargo on water. Very good condition. Accompanied by a signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfried George Lambert. Size: L:16.7mm /