22nd-21st century BC. A limestone cylinder seal with god and worshippers; 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 Green Stone with Black Patina 24 x 13 mm. The design is a presentation scene. On the left is a seated god on an angular stool. He wears a long robe and is raising one hand to two approaching standing figures. The first is introducing goddess [sic] wearing a headdress and long robe, raising one hand with with [sic] the other gripping a standing human behind her. He is bare-headed, is also clad in a long robe and is raising one hand. There is a lunar crescent in the sky. This is a Neo-Sumerian seal, from Mesopotamia or adjacent areas. It is deeply cut and fairly well preserved, save for two later drillings and one gash.' 8.27 grams, 24mm (1"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; item number W-537; 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.