Details
A SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
Engraved with a nude figure kneeling before a lion, and two sphinxes wearing Egyptianized headdresses with ram's horns, facing each other and treading on snakes, a hare in the field between them, three winged sun discs in the sky, guilloche border, 20 x 12.5 mm
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
Engraved with a nude figure kneeling before a lion, and two sphinxes wearing Egyptianized headdresses with ram's horns, facing each other and treading on snakes, a hare in the field between them, three winged sun discs in the sky, guilloche border, 20 x 12.5 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 552