Details
A SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1750-1620 B.C.
Engraved with a figure wearing a high oval headdress and a mantle with rolled borders and a kilt standing before a bareheaded figure in a long robe, a vessel and a fish(?) in the field, with an elaborate terminal consisting of two seated figures holding cups with stacked table and a vessel between them above an encircled spoke-like motif of eight figures joined at the feet, with three figures standing above two couchant hares to the left of the motif, line border, 17 x 9 mm
CIRCA 1750-1620 B.C.
Engraved with a figure wearing a high oval headdress and a mantle with rolled borders and a kilt standing before a bareheaded figure in a long robe, a vessel and a fish(?) in the field, with an elaborate terminal consisting of two seated figures holding cups with stacked table and a vessel between them above an encircled spoke-like motif of eight figures joined at the feet, with three figures standing above two couchant hares to the left of the motif, line border, 17 x 9 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 453