Lot Essay
For a related figure in a crescent moon see no. 230 in Collon, Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum, Cylinder Seals V, Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods.
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CIRCA 750-650 B.C.
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A NEO-ASSYRIAN BLUE-GRAY CHALCEDONY CYLINDER SEAL
Circa 750-650 B.C.
With a bull-man standing on his hind-legs, his hands raised, supporting a gold within a large crescent, only the upper portion of the god depicted, wearing a cylindrical headdress surmounted by a crescent, with one hand raised and the other extended, to the right a bearded figure wearing a long robe, standing with his hands raised, an incense burner between them, and to the left a bearded man in a fish-cape, his bare left leg advanced, a bucket in his lowered left hand, his right hand raised, the terminal a winged sun disk above a stylized plant
28 X 13 mm
Circa 750-650 B.C.
With a bull-man standing on his hind-legs, his hands raised, supporting a gold within a large crescent, only the upper portion of the god depicted, wearing a cylindrical headdress surmounted by a crescent, with one hand raised and the other extended, to the right a bearded figure wearing a long robe, standing with his hands raised, an incense burner between them, and to the left a bearded man in a fish-cape, his bare left leg advanced, a bucket in his lowered left hand, his right hand raised, the terminal a winged sun disk above a stylized plant
28 X 13 mm