Details
A SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
Engraved with a bearded figure wearing a round cap with an upturned brim, a kilt, and a fringed mantle, armed with a scimitar, facing left towards two bearded figures in round caps with upturned brims, kilts, and fringed mantles, a suppliant goddess between the two, the figure on the left armed with a spear, a small nude goddess with her hands under her breasts stands in between, facing the figure with the scimitar, a star disc and crescent, and star in the sky, with two seated facing figures holding alabastra with birds above, and a left facing seated lion below, as the terminal, line border, 20 x 12.5 mm
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
Engraved with a bearded figure wearing a round cap with an upturned brim, a kilt, and a fringed mantle, armed with a scimitar, facing left towards two bearded figures in round caps with upturned brims, kilts, and fringed mantles, a suppliant goddess between the two, the figure on the left armed with a spear, a small nude goddess with her hands under her breasts stands in between, facing the figure with the scimitar, a star disc and crescent, and star in the sky, with two seated facing figures holding alabastra with birds above, and a left facing seated lion below, as the terminal, line border, 20 x 12.5 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 440