Sumerian cylinder seal (2100 b.c.): image and cuneiform text

Click the picture to see annotations

Sumerian cylinder seal (2100 b.c.) depicts procession into the presence of god, cuneiform text at the right side What is image annotation?

Probably earliest literate culture was Sumer in Mesopotamia.
In the image in this post picture is part of combined image text presentation.
This approach with Text over Image was popular with most cultures most of the time for thousands years.