Tree flanked at either side by scorpion and lion

"The classification of 1071, like that of 1070, is in doubt. Though the lion and the scorpion occur in Syrian seals, the combination of these animals with a tree does not. Moreover, the blossoms on the tree are stylized lilies--a flower frequently pictured in Cretan and Mycenanean designs. It occurs in western Asia only as a manifestation of the influence of these Aegean styles, as for example in Middle Assyrian designs of the fourteenth century. It is not impossible therefore that 1071 represents the work of a Syrian engraver influenced by such Middle Assyrian designs."--Porada, CANES, p. 149