Middle Syrian, late 2nd-early 1st millennium BC. A concave green chalcedony cylinder seal with five registers, motifs to both ends for stamping, each register with different pictures with scenes, individuals and animals, partly pseudo-hieroglyphics, as well as Egyptianising pseudo-cartouches. Cf. Delaporte, L., Catalogue des Cylindres Orientaux II, pl.93: 7 (A. 831); Buchanan, B., Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum. Vol. I. Cylinder Seals, No. 612; Kühne, H., Das Rollsiegel in Syrien. Zur Steinschneidekunst in Syrien zwischen 3300 und 330 vor Christus, Tübingen, 1980, p.122-123, No. 71. 21 grams, 35mm (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 a geological report TL005241 by Dr Ronald Bonewitz. Seals of this kind are extremely rare, which makes interpretation and local and temporal assignment more difficult. Accompanied by a museum-quality impression.