A SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL

細節
A SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.

Engraved with a figure with a long beard, wearing a round cap with upturned brim, kilt, and fringed mantle, holding a spear, standing behind a second figure with a short beard in similar garb, both facing the "Syrian Woman" to their right, a crouching mongoose, hare, ball staff, rosette, and crescent in the field, tiny rampant lion on either side of the spear tip, scroll and lozenge motif as the terminal, 24 x 12 mm
出版
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 438