NORTH MESOPOTAMIAN BLACK STONE STAMP SEAL WITH QUADRUPEDS AND DOTS - WITH ORIGINAL REPORT BY PROF. L. Ca. 3000 - 2500 BC A black stone stamp seal pierced vertically through the body, modelled on the back as a crouching quadruped, possibly a wolf. The flat sealing face bears an incised design of two standing quadrupeds arranged tête-bêche within a field of drilled dots. Size: 33mm x 22mm; Weight: 13g. 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.