Two stone seals

[Canaan]

Hello to all i have these two seals that i do not know if even ancient, the holing look made by a machine!!!! Both are from stone and both are 14mm in height and 12 mm diameter from the base, the black one is 3.38grams and the white one 2.85 grams, any help regarding era or authneticity or even what is engraved is appreciated.

[SC]

What makes you think they are machine made?  They look uneven enough to me.  Especially the rounded top.  I would guess entirely hand made.

SC

[Canaan]

That is a relief thanks Shawn, the too rounded hole made me paranoid, from which era do you think these seals are?

[SC]

I am afraid I have no cue about dates.

Holes would likely have been drilled with a bow-drill and sand so they would be fairly even.  The top though would have been rounded by hand and so is very uneven.

Shawn

[Canaan]

Thanks Shawn, They might be Pre-Roman in my opinion, the black one can be a deer and the white some sort of a fish!!!!

[Russ]

Hi,

     These seals are outside my field but here are some observations.

     I believe they are ancient: first to second millennium BC. The quadruped on the black one is of a globolo class - made with a large round drill. Late Etruscan scarabs of about 300/350 BC were made this way. Yours are middle eastern and probably older. I don't think they are Hittite or Jemdet Nasr.
     If you can, check Buchanan and Moorey, Catalogue of ancient Near eastern seals in the Ashmolean Museum, Vols 1, 2 & 3. Oxford University Press.

Russ

[Canaan]

Thanks alot Russ i really appreciate your expertise, i will check these references.

[Canaan]

Hi Russ, seems to be no luck in finding something similar with these references!! but I will continue looking around, Thanks a lot for your time and efforts.