A MITANNIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
A MITANNIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
A MITANNIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
A MITANNIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
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A MITANNIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL

CIRCA 1500-1300 B.C.

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A MITANNIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1500-1300 B.C.
1 in. (2.5 cm.) long
Provenance
Acquired by the current owner by 1987.

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Lot Essay

This seal is engraved in two registers. The upper depicts three figures on either side of a palm tree, two to the left, one to the right, with a pattern of five dots to the left of the tree and a pattern of lines to the right. Each figure stands with one hand raised. Two of the figures wear short kilts and the third, to the far left, wears a longer dress. The lower register features confronting humped bulls, the one to the right with its head lowered.

For related figures flanking a stylized tree on a Mitannian cylinder seal in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, see fig. 193 in B. Tessier, Egyptian Iconography on Syro-Palestinian Cylinder Seals of the Middle Bronze Age.

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