Details
A SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
Engraved with a Syrian woman holding a cup facing an enthroned deity to the left wearing a horned headdress and flounced robe, and holding a cup, above a dais divided into four compartments below, containing a human head, a hare, a lion's head, or an antelope's head, with, to the right, two figures wearing ridged round caps standing before a third deity wearing a horned headdress and flounced robe, a crouching mongoose, rampant antelope, and ball staff in the field, a star disc and crescent, vessel, and a bird in the sky, 23 x 13 mm
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
Engraved with a Syrian woman holding a cup facing an enthroned deity to the left wearing a horned headdress and flounced robe, and holding a cup, above a dais divided into four compartments below, containing a human head, a hare, a lion's head, or an antelope's head, with, to the right, two figures wearing ridged round caps standing before a third deity wearing a horned headdress and flounced robe, a crouching mongoose, rampant antelope, and ball staff in the field, a star disc and crescent, vessel, and a bird in the sky, 23 x 13 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 504