A GROUP OF MAINLY STAMP SEALS, including a Mesopotamian pink stone stamp seal, square, with suspension loop at back, the base showing a seated deity holding out a cup to another approaching deity, both wearing horned headdress, 3rd millennium B.C., 2.3 x 2.3cm.; a Luristan bronze stamp seal, the vertical handle modelled as a stylized Janus-head with suspension loop, the circular base with a running archer, circa 1250-1000 B.C., 2.2cm. high; a Babylonian veined red stone duck seal, the base with two stars, 1.6cm. long; and three others, similar, one with staff surmounted by a star on the base, 1.7cm. long max., all pierced for suspension, all early 1st millennium B.C.; a Neo-Babylonian chalcedony stamp seal with octagonal base and high octagonal back, the base with a worshipper standing before an altar, 2.6cm. high; another rock crystal seal, similar, of conical form, the base with worshipper and a star above, 1.6cm. high, both pierced, both late 7th-5th Century B.C.; and a Sassanian dark green stone seal of hemispherical form, pierced, the base showing a winged horse, circa 5th Century A.D., 1.1 cm. diam. (20)