Details
A SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1800-1650 B.C.
Engraved with a bearded figure wearing a round cap and a mantle with rolled border standing between two suppliant goddesses in long robes, an ankh in the field, a star, and crescent in the sky, with two opposing seated sphinxes above a double spiral motif above a lion attacking a victim as the the terminal, 19 x 11.5 mm
CIRCA 1800-1650 B.C.
Engraved with a bearded figure wearing a round cap and a mantle with rolled border standing between two suppliant goddesses in long robes, an ankh in the field, a star, and crescent in the sky, with two opposing seated sphinxes above a double spiral motif above a lion attacking a victim as the the terminal, 19 x 11.5 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 451