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A SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1800-1720 B.C.
Engraved with four intertwined frontal-faced nude heroes, each holding a vase in their left hand out of which issues streams of water which forms a wavy circle around the group, their outstretched arms forming a square within, next to this ensemble are a pair of horizontal bull-men with facing heads, and a pair of opposing rampant lions, one of them reversed, 24 x 11 mm
CIRCA 1800-1720 B.C.
Engraved with four intertwined frontal-faced nude heroes, each holding a vase in their left hand out of which issues streams of water which forms a wavy circle around the group, their outstretched arms forming a square within, next to this ensemble are a pair of horizontal bull-men with facing heads, and a pair of opposing rampant lions, one of them reversed, 24 x 11 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 557
Collon, First Impressions, Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East, Chicago, 1987, no. 865
Collon, First Impressions, Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East, Chicago, 1987, no. 865