Aragonite cylinder seal, contest scene with mythical beasts.

A Bactrian copper bead seal, the engraving depicting a running horse and centipedes.

A Bactrian grey hard-stone stamp seal depicting a goddess with two male worshippers.

Am Ordos bronze seal depicting a stylised coiled dragon.

A very large Iranian bronze cylinder seal with concave sides.

A Bactrian copper bead seal, the engraving depicting a quadruped possibly a mongoose attacking a scorpion.

A Phoenician clay bulla the image depicting an antelope.

Bactrian bronze stamp seal, with openwork abstract design

Early Islamic clay mould with lion in roundel and text.

Bactrian clay stamp seal with an image of an eagle with outstretched wings

A Harappan steatite seal engraved with unicorn, ritual offering stand and row of signs from the Indus Valley script; the reverse with suspension loop carved from the same piece of stone.

A superb large Bactrian copper cylinder sealwith a scene showing a human figure leading a winged horse which is being attacked from behind by a lion; with crescent moons in the field.

A Bactrian copper bead seal, the engraving depicting a snake and dragon.

Sumerian stamp-seal Uruk/Jemdet Nasr

A Bactrian copper cylinder seal engraved with a frieze of animals and a hunter on horseback.

A Bactrian black steatite cylinder seal engraved with a pair of warriors amongst wild beasts.