3rd millennium BC. A large limestone cylinder seal with abstract design; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a copy of a typed and signed scholarly note by W.G. Lambert, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder Seal of Cream Stone with Grey Flecks, 29 x 25 mm. The design consists of an abstract pattern of cuts and holes, the cuts often beginning and ending in points. While here and there one may thing (sic) a horned quadruped is meant, generally it is safer to accept that it is genuinely abstract. The seal is from Syria or Anatolia, and dates to c. 3000 B.C. Such seals are known, but are rare, and this one is in fine state of preservation. It is also unusually large for the type and period.' 27.4 grams, 29mm (1"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s, item number 1; academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s.