Ca. 600 - 500 BC.
An octagonal Neo - Babylonian stamp seal depicting a dressed figure facing an alter with the emblems of Marduk and Nabu. The depiction has highly stylised details, including a crescent moon in the sky. The seal has a poligonal body with a horizontally drilled hole. For similar see: Berlin Museum, VA Bab 1651.
Size: 21mm x 14mm; Weight: 9g
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.