22nd-21st century BC. A black jasper cylinder seal with eagle and goats; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and typed and signed scholarly note issued by W.G. Lambert, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder Seal of Black Stone 24 x 13 mm. The design shows a heraldic eagle -- head sideways at the top, wings spread, tail feathers down -- gripping notionally with its talons the rump of a horned animal on each side, that on the right being smaller than that on the left. There are two crescents in the sky and a star below the horns of the left-side animal, while a tree forms a terminal. This is a late Akkadian seal, c.2200-2100 B.C., from Mesopotamia or west Iran. It is neatly engraved and in pristine condition.' 7.84 grams, 29mm (1"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; item number W-464; academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s; accompanied by an original typed and signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert.