Cylinder Seal of the Royal Scribe Ibni-Sharrum, Akkadian period,reign of Sharkalisharri, 2217–2193 BC, black marble
Musée du Louvre, Department of Near Eastern Antiquities, Paris. Boisgelin gift, 1967 (de Clercq collection). Image © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY. Photo: Franck Raux