Details
A SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1850-1750 B.C.
Engraved with a goddess wearing a horned headdress and a slit robe, her head facing front, resting one foot on a lion, holding a spear and a throw-stick, a set of arrows in two quivers on her shoulders, standing between a worshiper holding an animal offfering to her left, and a priest with a pail and a sprinkler to her right, a vessel and animal head in the field, a star and a fly in the sky, with two opposing lions above a plaited border above two couchant hares above four human heads as the terminal, 23 x 12 mm
CIRCA 1850-1750 B.C.
Engraved with a goddess wearing a horned headdress and a slit robe, her head facing front, resting one foot on a lion, holding a spear and a throw-stick, a set of arrows in two quivers on her shoulders, standing between a worshiper holding an animal offfering to her left, and a priest with a pail and a sprinkler to her right, a vessel and animal head in the field, a star and a fly in the sky, with two opposing lions above a plaited border above two couchant hares above four human heads as the terminal, 23 x 12 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 505