19th-18th century BC.A chert cylinder seal with two scenes that determine the picture: on the left a standing naked bearded man, facing left, fighting with an unrepresented spear against a rampant lion; between the two figures a squatting monkey; the ribs of the fighter, the mane of the lion and of the monkey are stylised as thick parallel bead rods; eye, mouth and nose of the beast form, reduced to the essentials, an ingenious unit; on the right two antithetically crossing lions in the same style; very embossed and 'plastic' representation; this seal could be the first specimen of a hitherto unknown style from an outlying province of Anatolia. Cf. for this the notch style on Cilician seals from the same period: Porada, E. and Collon, D. CWAS. Cylinder Seals IV. The Second Millennium BC Beyond Babylon, London, 2016, pl.4. 4.04 grams, 20mm (3/4"). From a private collection of seals and amulets, the property of a Canadian gentleman living in London; from his father's collection formed in the late 1960s to 1980s. Fine condition.