Early Dynastic II-III (Mesopotamia), ca. 2700–2300 BC. A nice whitish coloured cylinder seal from ancient Mesoptamia. In two registers, grazing doe, lions attacking ibexes and a winged mythical creature are depicted. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.Size: L:51mm / W:18.2mm ; 31.34gProvenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.