Details
THIRTY-THREE NEO-ASSYRIAN CYLINDER SEALS
Circa 900-600 B.C.
Including five with a hero attacking an animal or monster with a scimitar; twelve with a kneeling archer aiming at an animal or monster; one engraved with a tentacled monster; one with a confronting bull and bird-man; one with a confronting bird-tailed scorpion-bodied monster and an antelope; one with a horse and a bird; two with a bull and a rosette; five with standing figures facing a vessel upon a stand; four with worshipers around a sacred tree, some with animals and winged sun-discs; and one with a worhiper facing a sphinx under a winged sun-disc (33)
Circa 900-600 B.C.
Including five with a hero attacking an animal or monster with a scimitar; twelve with a kneeling archer aiming at an animal or monster; one engraved with a tentacled monster; one with a confronting bull and bird-man; one with a confronting bird-tailed scorpion-bodied monster and an antelope; one with a horse and a bird; two with a bull and a rosette; five with standing figures facing a vessel upon a stand; four with worshipers around a sacred tree, some with animals and winged sun-discs; and one with a worhiper facing a sphinx under a winged sun-disc (33)
Provenance
The Marcopoli Collection
Christie's New York, 14 June 1993, lots 257, 259-260, 262-263 & 269.
Christie's New York, 14 June 1993, lots 257, 259-260, 262-263 & 269.
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collections, nos. 149-154, 165-176, 185-194 & 243-247.