Details
A SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
Engraved with a figure wearing a round cap with upturned brim, a fringed mantle, and kilt, standing with a seminude goddess in an embracing posture, a rosette above them, with two nude goddesses holding a pole with a crescent and disc top, a tree, and guilloche above and below as the terminal, 20.5 x 10 mm
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
Engraved with a figure wearing a round cap with upturned brim, a fringed mantle, and kilt, standing with a seminude goddess in an embracing posture, a rosette above them, with two nude goddesses holding a pole with a crescent and disc top, a tree, and guilloche above and below as the terminal, 20.5 x 10 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 445