MITANNI FAIENCE CYLINDER SEAL - ORIGINAL LAMBERT REPORT Ca. 1500 - 1200 BC. A faience cylinder seal. The design, which is enclosed between upper and lower rulings has two parts. In the one a nude female stands between two figures clad in long robes from waist to feet, open at the front where one leg projects. All three figures have their hands clasped at the waist. There is a dot in a circle, meant as a solar disc, high up in the scene. The other part of the design consists of two rearing facing lions above an apparently dead recumbent horned animal. Size: 27mm x 13mm; Weight: 4g. Provenance: Property of a London gallery; formerly with a Mayfair Art dealer S.A.; Ex. 1990s London collections, studied and catalogued by professor Lambert in the early 90s (with original note, signed by him). Previously in an old British collection formed since the 1960s.