Two cylinder seals One decorated with fish passing among aquatic plants; the other with a compartmentalized architectural composition featuring fantastical animals. Black soapstone and glass paste (rare). Mesopotamia, Djemdet Nasr (3300-3000 B.C.) and Mitanni (early 2nd millennium B.C.) Heights: 2.6 and 4.7 cm Provenance : - Estate. "Collection of seals, cylinders, amulets" in a 1999 partition inventory. - For the steatite one, Ader Picard Tajan sale, October 29 and 30, 1973, lot no. 367.