3rd millennium BC. A bronze stamp seal with tapering ribbed handle to the reverse, shaped as a ram standing in profile, compartments to the face. 34 grams, 56mm (2 1/4"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; collection nummber ZZ-2, academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s. Very fine condition.