Details
A SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1800-1720 B.C.
Engraved with confronting nude heroes in half-kneeling position, their hands on their chests, a hand in the field between them, a fly in the field behind the right figure, with, two opposing lions, the right one with turned head, above a guilloche, above three standing figures in long robes, each with a hand raised, line border, 23 x 10 mm
CIRCA 1800-1720 B.C.
Engraved with confronting nude heroes in half-kneeling position, their hands on their chests, a hand in the field between them, a fly in the field behind the right figure, with, two opposing lions, the right one with turned head, above a guilloche, above three standing figures in long robes, each with a hand raised, line border, 23 x 10 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 556