EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD MESOPOTAMIA OR OLD ELAMITE. Ca. 3rd Millennium BC A beautiful quartz cylinder depicting mountain goats. Size: 20mm x 10mm; Weight: 3g. Provenance: 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.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.