PAIR OF NEAR EASTERN STONE SEALS WITH ANIMALS. Ca. 3000 BC A pair of stone seals, including, from top to bottom: a squat cylinder seal carved with a continuous frieze of striding caprids; and a smaller dark stone seal of hexagonal section, each face engraved with a register of figures including standing humans, human heads, scorpions and recumbent animals. Size: 23-31mm x 10-30mm; Weight: 50g. 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.