2nd millennium BC. A glazed composition cylinder seal with frieze of two scenes; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and typed and signed scholarly note issued by W.G. Lambert, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder Seal of Faience 28 x 13 mm. There are two scenes. In the main scene two standing figures face: with hair hanging down the neck in a bun, wearing long fringed robes and clasping the hands at the waist. Between them is a stylized sacred tree. The minor scene consists of a recumbent quadruped with jaws wide open above a guilloche, and below a different guilloche resting on a double line and decorated above with a row of shapes. The whole area is enclosed between upper and lower rulings. This is a Mitanni seal, c.1400-1200 B.C., from anywhere between Kurdistan and the eastern Mediterranean. It is fine work and in very good condition.' 4.57 grams, 27mm (1"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; item number W-448; 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.