Details
A SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1800-1620 B.C.
Engraved with a winged goddess wearing a square horned headdress and a kilt with long back panel, a dagger at the waist, holding a cup and a saw, facing the weather god standing on a mountain to her right, armed with a dagger at his waist, a mace, an ax, and a throw-stick, with the Syrian goddess to the right wearing a horned headdress with plume and a mantle with rolled borders, holding a cup, with two couchant bulls, ankh, and crouching mongoose in the field, a star in the sky, line border, 30 x 13.5 mm
CIRCA 1800-1620 B.C.
Engraved with a winged goddess wearing a square horned headdress and a kilt with long back panel, a dagger at the waist, holding a cup and a saw, facing the weather god standing on a mountain to her right, armed with a dagger at his waist, a mace, an ax, and a throw-stick, with the Syrian goddess to the right wearing a horned headdress with plume and a mantle with rolled borders, holding a cup, with two couchant bulls, ankh, and crouching mongoose in the field, a star in the sky, line border, 30 x 13.5 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 476