OLD ELAMITE BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL Ca. 3000 BC. A black stone cylinder seal from the Old Elamite period. It depicts a bull and a bird of prey. Its design is unusual in its linear depiction. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Size: L:41.2mm / W:13.3mm ; 12.79g. Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collection, 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.