26th century BC. A carved jasper Early Dynastic II cylinder seal with a series of figures, walking to the left: a composite being with the head of a sheep and a human body in a tight girded knee-length robe, behind a stag and a lion with raised tail; in the sky behind the lion's tail is a wedge; accompanied by a museum-quality impression. For this picture cf. Buchanan, B. Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, Vol. I. Cylinder Seals, Oxford, 1966, pl.50, fig.767-772 (esp. 770); Amiet, P. La glyptique mésopotamienne archaique, Paris, 1980, pl.85 bis, fig.C & D; Keel-Leu, P.H. and Teissier, B. The Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals of the Collections (Bible+Orient) of the University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Göttingen, 2004, p.454, fig.272 (Note! Here also the wedge in the sky behind the lion's tail"). 21.49 grams, 34mm (1 1/4"). 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.