Details
TWO SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
One engraved with a half-kneeling figure wearing a loin cloth with one arm raised facing a standing figure wearing a kilt with his hand raised in salute, with a lion attacking a gazelle between them, a snake and crouching mongoose in the field, and two scorpions as the terminal, line border, 20 x 10 mm, and one engraved with a similar scene with star or vessel in the field, two birds in the sky, and a bird and a scorpion as the terminal, line border, 20 x 10 mm (2)
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
One engraved with a half-kneeling figure wearing a loin cloth with one arm raised facing a standing figure wearing a kilt with his hand raised in salute, with a lion attacking a gazelle between them, a snake and crouching mongoose in the field, and two scorpions as the terminal, line border, 20 x 10 mm, and one engraved with a similar scene with star or vessel in the field, two birds in the sky, and a bird and a scorpion as the terminal, line border, 20 x 10 mm (2)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 524 & 525