MESOPOTAMIAN RED STONE BIRD AMULET - WITH ORIGINAL REPORT BY PROF. LAMBERT. Ca. 3000 - 2500 BC A red stone amulet cut from a flat slip of rock in the outline of a seated bird with a rounded body, short neck and head. Pierced at the bottom for suspension. Size: 47mm x 36mm; Weight: 17g. 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.