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TWO SYRIAN CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 2900-2200 B.C.
One of white marble engraved with a figure with raised arms surrounded by an antelope, an ibex, a stag and a horned animal with turned back head, drill holes and linear strokes in the field, 27 x 15 mm, and one of black serpentine engraved with a standing figure with a dagger in one hand, and the horn of a bull in the other, an antelope behind, schematic bird(?), a stand, and a scorpion in the field, 36 x 13 mm (2)
CIRCA 2900-2200 B.C.
One of white marble engraved with a figure with raised arms surrounded by an antelope, an ibex, a stag and a horned animal with turned back head, drill holes and linear strokes in the field, 27 x 15 mm, and one of black serpentine engraved with a standing figure with a dagger in one hand, and the horn of a bull in the other, an antelope behind, schematic bird(?), a stand, and a scorpion in the field, 36 x 13 mm (2)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 319 & 320