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THE SURENA COLLECTION OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN CYLINDER SEALS
A NEO-ASSYRIAN GRAY CHALCEDONY CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 900-750 B.C.
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A NEO-ASSYRIAN GRAY CHALCEDONY CYLINDER SEAL
Circa 900-750 B.C.
Depicting a standing deity at the left wearing a globe-topped and horned cylindrical headdress and fringed robe which is open revealing his advanced left leg, a scimitar in his right hand, a circlet in his left, a spade symbol before him representing the god Marduk on the back of the horned Mushushu dragon with snake's tail, and to the right two standing worshippers, the taller in front, each with his hair pulled back, wearing a fringed robe, the right hand fisted with the index finger pointed, the cupped left palm facing upward, between them a merman above a rhomb, holding streamers in his raised hands which hang from the winged solar disk above, a star, a lunar crescent and the seven pleiades in the sky, line borders above and below
35 X 17 mm
Circa 900-750 B.C.
Depicting a standing deity at the left wearing a globe-topped and horned cylindrical headdress and fringed robe which is open revealing his advanced left leg, a scimitar in his right hand, a circlet in his left, a spade symbol before him representing the god Marduk on the back of the horned Mushushu dragon with snake's tail, and to the right two standing worshippers, the taller in front, each with his hair pulled back, wearing a fringed robe, the right hand fisted with the index finger pointed, the cupped left palm facing upward, between them a merman above a rhomb, holding streamers in his raised hands which hang from the winged solar disk above, a star, a lunar crescent and the seven pleiades in the sky, line borders above and below
35 X 17 mm