Cylinder seal with running deer Pink limestone. Sumerian art, 1st dynasty (early 3rd millennium BC). Height: 4.1 cm Provenance: From a copy of the collectors' notes, acquired from Koutoulakis in Paris on March 17, 1954. Publication: DANMAVILLE, Jenny, "La Collection Thierry", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 1965, vol. 59, p. 56, reproduced fig. 10. Indicated as "purchased from a Paris antique dealer as coming from Baghdad". Collection Nicole et Jean-Michel Thierry - lots 1 to 141.