Details
A NEO-ASSYRIAN BLACK SERPENTINE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 900-700 B.C.
Engraved with a figure lying on a bed under a semicircular tent-like structure, a bearded figure with an instrument leans over the bed-ridden figure, while a female figure kneels at the head of the bed holding a flaming bowl, to the right of the structure is a gesticulating female, while to the left is a standing figure holding a staff, on the roof of the structure is a profile dog, a stylus and rhomb in the field, a star, crescent, winged sun disc and five globes in the sky, line border, 30 x 14 mm
CIRCA 900-700 B.C.
Engraved with a figure lying on a bed under a semicircular tent-like structure, a bearded figure with an instrument leans over the bed-ridden figure, while a female figure kneels at the head of the bed holding a flaming bowl, to the right of the structure is a gesticulating female, while to the left is a standing figure holding a staff, on the roof of the structure is a profile dog, a stylus and rhomb in the field, a star, crescent, winged sun disc and five globes in the sky, line border, 30 x 14 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 231
Collon, First Impressions, Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East, Chicago, 1987, no. 803
Collon, First Impressions, Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East, Chicago, 1987, no. 803