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CIRCA 1000-800 B.C.
Details
A NEO-BABYLONIAN CARNELIAN CYLINDER SEAL
Circa 1000-800 B.C.
With a four-winged bearded hero facing left wearing a decorated robe and a pointed headdress, kneeling on his left knee, raising a table above his head, a winged solar disk above, with a bull-man on either side, each standing on its hind-legs, with a long beard and a similar headdress, raising their hands in adoration, a rhomb and a triangle as fillers, the terminal a star above a stylized palm
24 X 10 mm
Circa 1000-800 B.C.
With a four-winged bearded hero facing left wearing a decorated robe and a pointed headdress, kneeling on his left knee, raising a table above his head, a winged solar disk above, with a bull-man on either side, each standing on its hind-legs, with a long beard and a similar headdress, raising their hands in adoration, a rhomb and a triangle as fillers, the terminal a star above a stylized palm
24 X 10 mm
Provenance
Fine Antiquities, Christie's London, 3 July 1996, lot 462