Syro-Canaanite, ca. mid to late 2nd millennium BC. A Levantine black-coloured cylinder seal. It depicts various animals (a horse, a lion, a scorpion and likely a gazelle) and floral elements. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.Size: L:23.6mm / W:10.8mm ; 4.69gProvenance: 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.