ELAMITE BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL WITH STANDING FIGURE AND PRISONER. Ca. 2000 - 1700 BC An Elamite black stone cylinder seal depicting standing figures grabbing a prisoner of war (?), a pithos and an ostrich in the exergue. Size: 31mm x 15mm; Weight: 27g. 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. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.