Ur III-Period, 2112-2002 BC. A red jasper cylinder seal with presentation scene comprising: a goddess wearing a flounced robe and a multiple-horned head-dress, standing with the left hand raised behind the worshipper, the worshipper wearing a robe with fringed ends, hanging down in a curve on either side (typical for the Ur III-Period), holding his right arm bent near the right hip, being led by the goddess Lama by his left hand, the goddess wearing a flounced robe, facing an enthroned long bearded god, also in a flounced robe and with a multiple-horned head-dress, behind him two lines of vertical inscription with the name and patronymic of the owner 1) A-ri-lum„?r-ilum (Sandhi!, „God is a hero.“), 2) DUMU I-x-ru-um-DIM (son of I-x-ru-um-d/tum.“ Cf. for the worshipper framed by two goddesses D. Collon, Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals II. Akkadian, Post Akkadian, Ur III Periods, London, 1982, p.168-169, pl. LII, fig. 469; for the personal name ?r-ilum, see AHw. 72a s.v. ?ru(m) III 1"). 46 grams, 40mm (1 1/2"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s; accompanied by Geologic Report TL005243 by Dr Ronald Bonewitz. Accompanied by a museum-quality impression.