4th-3rd millennium BC. A group of cylinder seals, each accompanied by a museum-quality impression, comprising: Jemdet Nasr pink stone type, standing animal and tree; Syrian black jasper type with stag and gazelle; Late Akkadian calcite type with bird and two horned beasts; chalcedony type with hunting scene of a bowman, tree and stag. Cf. the first item in Erlenmeyer, M.-L., and Erlenmeyer, H., Cerviden-Darstellungen auf altorientalischen and ägäischen Siegeln. I'Orientalia, Nova Series, vol.25, 1956, pl.XXVI, no.54 and p.151. 30 grams total, 19-37mm (3/4 - 1 1/2"). Ex central London gallery; formerly with Bonhams, London, 1 December 1999, lot 230; previously in the Erlenmeyer collection; accompanied by copies of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages. [4]