Lot Essay
This seal compares to an example in the Louvre (AO 22350).
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CIRCA 900-700 B.C.
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A NEO-BABYLONIAN GRAY CHALCEDONY CYLINDER SEAL
Circa 900-700 B.C.
With a four-winged hero at the center kneeling to the right, his torso and head frontal, with four bunches of hair atop his head and three curls on either side of his face, wearing an open kilt, his arms raised gripping the fore- and hind-leg of a winged sphinx above, with a nude, bearded four-winged hero on either side of him, both stepping on to the lower wings of the central figure, each with their straightened leg on the back of a recumbent, winged human-headed goat, the terminal with a star above a tree
31 X 13 mm
Circa 900-700 B.C.
With a four-winged hero at the center kneeling to the right, his torso and head frontal, with four bunches of hair atop his head and three curls on either side of his face, wearing an open kilt, his arms raised gripping the fore- and hind-leg of a winged sphinx above, with a nude, bearded four-winged hero on either side of him, both stepping on to the lower wings of the central figure, each with their straightened leg on the back of a recumbent, winged human-headed goat, the terminal with a star above a tree
31 X 13 mm