800-539 BC. A chalcedony(?) cylinder seal, accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a scholarly note, which states: 'A winged bearded hero, facing left, with long neck hair, wearing a tall domed head-dress on a diadem, and an open, tiered and striped robe over a kilt, in the left hand holding a scimitar behind him, kicks his right leg on the head of a stag lying in front of him, whose left leg he pulls towards him at head level with his right hand. On the left, behind the stag, a large, upright lioness with a mouth open and her tail rolled up, lifting the right front paw behind her back to strike, tears the left leg of the stag with her left front paw. Behind the lioness a naked man with a flat round cap, facing right, holds up a branch or ear of wheat in his outstretched left hand and behind him a staff in his right. There is an eight-pointed star between the man and the lioness and this and the stag.' Cf. Collon, D., Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals V. Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods, London, 2001, no.321, for another cylinder seal of this period with the very rare contest scene with stag. 24.5 grams, 38mm (1 1/2"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired by his father in the 1970s; thence by descent; accompanied by a copy of a scholarly note, report number 151815.