30th-28th century BC. A facetted brown jasper cylinder seal, accompanied by a museum-quality impression and an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'The design shows a walking bovine, and behind it a seated figure holding a spear with point downwards while gripping a rope(?) to the animal's head. Two concentric circles and two small sitting birds fill spaces. A terminal is created of a bush and solar disc above it. This is a Syrian seal, c. 3000-2800 BC. It is worn and damaged at one end, but the design was deeply cut and so survives well.' 14 grams, 40mm (1 1/2"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; item number T-269; academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s; accompanied by an original typed and signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert.