Details
A SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
Engraved with a deity wearing a horned headdress and a long slit robe, holding a lighting fork, steps on a bull whose leash he holds, facing two figures to his left, one a worshiper in a round cap and a fringed mantel, the other a deity in a horned headdress and flounced robe, an ankh in the field, with a rampant animal, bowlegged dwarf, human head, crescent standard, and a bird as the terminal, 24 x 11 mm
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
Engraved with a deity wearing a horned headdress and a long slit robe, holding a lighting fork, steps on a bull whose leash he holds, facing two figures to his left, one a worshiper in a round cap and a fringed mantel, the other a deity in a horned headdress and flounced robe, an ankh in the field, with a rampant animal, bowlegged dwarf, human head, crescent standard, and a bird as the terminal, 24 x 11 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 503