WEST CENTRAL ASIAN BRONZE SEAL WITH FORMÉE CROSS AND CENTRAL HOLE - WITH ORIGINAL REPORT BY PROF. LA. Ca. 2100 - 1800 BC. A bronze stamp seal of a square shape, with a flat face and slightly convex back in the centre of which is a short stout stalk handle ending in a pierced loop. The design on the face consists of a kind of formée cross with a small hole in the centre, and the four spaces around are filled with one scrolling stroke each. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 1978.261.2, 1978.261.1, 1983.535.151, 1983.535.52. Size: 19mm x 21mm; Weight: 15g 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.