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ASSYRO-BABYLONIAN, CIRCA 750-600 B.C.
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A WESTERN ASIATIC AGATE CYLINDER SEAL
Assyro-Babylonian, Circa 750-600 B.C.
With a four-winged hero gripping the fore-arms of two rearing winged sphinxes, the hero wearing a long tiered robe open at the front revealing his advanced left leg, with two small facing figures below the hero's wings, each with a long fringed robe, raising one hand and extending the other hand cupped, a fish between the legs of the sphinx on the right, a rhomb between the legs of the sphinx on the left, the terminal three intertwined snakes above a four-winged nude female figure
31.5 X 14 mm
Assyro-Babylonian, Circa 750-600 B.C.
With a four-winged hero gripping the fore-arms of two rearing winged sphinxes, the hero wearing a long tiered robe open at the front revealing his advanced left leg, with two small facing figures below the hero's wings, each with a long fringed robe, raising one hand and extending the other hand cupped, a fish between the legs of the sphinx on the right, a rhomb between the legs of the sphinx on the left, the terminal three intertwined snakes above a four-winged nude female figure
31.5 X 14 mm