BACTRIAN STAMP SEAL WITH A EAGLE
Ca. 2300 - 1800 BC.
A round Bactrian stamp seal depicting an eagle with its wings spread and a background of stars in the sky. The seal has a horizontally drilled hole. For similar see: Unpublished Stamp - seal from the north western Murgab Delta, Table 7.12. fig. 1.
Size: 22mm x 22mm; Weight: 10g
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.
