3rd millennium BC. A jasper cylinder seal with frieze of combat scenes; 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 22 x 12 mm. Two pairs of fighting gods are shown: one god is seated on a mountain as the attacker pulls up his head by the beard while holding one arm. In the other pair one is down on one knee while his opponent holds his one arm and stabs his head. This is an Akkadian seal, from Mesopotamia or south-west Iran, c. 2300-2200 B.C. It is a less common type and in good condition. This scene is limited to the Akkadian period.' 5.4 grams, 21mm (3/4"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; item number W-520; 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.