EARLY NEO-BABYLONIAN STONE CYLINDER SEAL Ca. 8th - 7th century BC. A stone cylinder seal with a deity (likely Marduk, the patron deity of Babylon) standing on a dragon. There are also icons of Marduk (spade) and Nabu (styli) and astral images (Pleiades, winged suns, eight-pointed stars and lunar crescents) in the exergue. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Size: 49mm x 19mm; Weight: 32g. 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.