19th-16th century BC. A banded agate cylinder seal comprising: a robed king, wearing a cap and raising one hand, faces the ascending Sun god who holds his saw toothed knife vertically and rests his foot on a rectangular mountain; the inscription: 1 'Mu-na-nu-um M?n?num (M?n?num: 'The little caterpillar')' 2 'DUMU Nu-ru-bu-um son of Nurrubum (Nurrubum: 'The very-soft-one')' For the scene cf. Collon, D. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum, Cylinder Seals V, Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods, London, 2001, pl.XXVII, no.361. 2.63 grams, 24mm (1"). Property of a South West London gentleman; acquired by his father in the 1970s; by descent 1986. Extremely fine condition.