2nd millennium BC. A white jasper cylinder seal with frieze of figures and cuneiform inscription; 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 White Marble 23 x 15 mm. A presentation scene is shown. On the right is a seated deity in hat and long robe, on padded stool, raising one hand. Facing him stands a worshipper with bare head and wearing long robe, raising one hand. On the left is a Lamma goddess raising both hands. There is a crescent in the sky and three fillers: 'vessel', 'ball-staff' and monkey. A three-line cuneiform inscription apparently named the ancient owner, but that has been largely scraped off, no doubt by a second owner in the ancient world. This is an Old Babylonian seal, c.1900-1600 B.C. It is in an unusual stone for the period, but is worn apart from the erased inscription.' 10 grams, 23mm (1"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; item number W-430; 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.