4th-3rd millennium BC. A limestone cylinder seal with scorpion frieze; 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 Dark Stone 19 x 18 mm. The design consists of two pairs of elongated scorpions, one above the other, separated by trees or bushes. This is a Jemdet Nasr seal, c. 3000 B.C., from Mesopotamia or south-west Iran. It is a rare design and in good condition.' 11 grams, 17mm (3/4"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; item number W-614; 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.