4th-3rd millennium BC. A jasper cylinder seal with frieze of women with staffs; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and typed and signed scholarly note issued by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder Seal of Black Stone 19 x 18 mm. The design is a frieze of four walking women with plaits and wearing longish robes each holding up a standard with pear-shaped top. This is a Jemdet Nasr seal, from Mesopotamia or south-west Iran, c. 3000 B.C. It is a less common design and is in unusually good condition.' 13.7 grams, 19mm (3/4"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; item number W-613; 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.