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19TH-18TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN OLD BABYLONIAN HAEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
19TH-18TH CENTURY B.C.
Showing the frontally facing armed goddess, Ishtar, with one foot resting on her lion holding a double-headed mace and scimitar sword, quivers on her back, being approached by a king holding a mace and a suppliant goddess with both hands raised, with two-line cuneiform inscription reading "Adad and his consort Shala"; and an Iranian(?) veined brown stone cylinder seal showing armed Ishtar, with quivers on her back, holding arrows and a bow, standing on her lion facing a suppliant woman, holding a flail, 7th-6th Century B.C.
1 in. (2.5 cm.) and ¾ in. (1.8 cm.) high respectively (2)
19TH-18TH CENTURY B.C.
Showing the frontally facing armed goddess, Ishtar, with one foot resting on her lion holding a double-headed mace and scimitar sword, quivers on her back, being approached by a king holding a mace and a suppliant goddess with both hands raised, with two-line cuneiform inscription reading "Adad and his consort Shala"; and an Iranian(?) veined brown stone cylinder seal showing armed Ishtar, with quivers on her back, holding arrows and a bow, standing on her lion facing a suppliant woman, holding a flail, 7th-6th Century B.C.
1 in. (2.5 cm.) and ¾ in. (1.8 cm.) high respectively (2)