A LARGE NEO-ASSYRIAN MOTTLED RED AND WHITE QUARTZ CYLINDER SEAL
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A LARGE NEO-ASSYRIAN MOTTLED RED AND WHITE QUARTZ CYLINDER SEAL

CIRCA 900-750 B.C.

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A LARGE NEO-ASSYRIAN MOTTLED RED AND WHITE QUARTZ CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 900-750 B.C.
Showing a scorpion-man with bearded human head, human torso with wings, three legs with the talons of a bird and a scorpion's tail, taking aim with bow and arrow at a fleeing mythical winged bull, in the field a rhomb, star, crescent and the Pleiades above, the upper and lower borders indented probably for terminal caps
1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm.) high
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