Details
A NEO-ASSYRIAN MOTTLED YELLOW MARBLE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 800-700 B.C.
Engraved with a standing worshiper and a female deity standing in front of a bull and holding a lightning fork, a laden table between them, and a female deity, standing on a cow with a suckling calf and holding a vessel, behind the worshiper, a rhomb in the field, a star, seven globes, a crescent, winged sun disc and trident in the field, a bull's head and marru terminal, line border, with an Aramaic inscription behind the worshiper which reads: "seal of El-amar," 35 x 15 mm
CIRCA 800-700 B.C.
Engraved with a standing worshiper and a female deity standing in front of a bull and holding a lightning fork, a laden table between them, and a female deity, standing on a cow with a suckling calf and holding a vessel, behind the worshiper, a rhomb in the field, a star, seven globes, a crescent, winged sun disc and trident in the field, a bull's head and marru terminal, line border, with an Aramaic inscription behind the worshiper which reads: "seal of El-amar," 35 x 15 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 236