3rd millennium BC. A rhyolite cylinder seal with frieze of attacking lions; 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 and Green Stone 29 x 17 mm. A contest scene is shown: two rearing buffaloes with bodies crossing are being attackedby [sic] two lions, and on the far left a hero is pulling off one of the lions. This is an Akkadian seal from Mesopotamia or south-west Iran, c. 2300-2200 B.C. It is a typical design of the period and is nicely cut, but the stone is a little worn.' 15 grams, 29mm (1"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; item number W-506; 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.