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A CYPRIOT HEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 1400-1200 B.C.
Engraved with two figures subjugating a lion, the figures wearing open skirts with a pointed end and flat caps, the one on the left with a streamer on the cap, and armed with a spear, the lion rendered with its face frontal, a Cypro-Minoan sign in the field, six dotted circular drillings in the sky, with a rampant lion and two leaping hares as the terminal, line border, 22 x 9 mm
CIRCA 1400-1200 B.C.
Engraved with two figures subjugating a lion, the figures wearing open skirts with a pointed end and flat caps, the one on the left with a streamer on the cap, and armed with a spear, the lion rendered with its face frontal, a Cypro-Minoan sign in the field, six dotted circular drillings in the sky, with a rampant lion and two leaping hares as the terminal, line border, 22 x 9 mm
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 no. 643