Details
TWO NEO-ASSYRIAN CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 900-700 B.C.
One of black serpentine engraved in two registers with, in the upper, two worshipers to the left (one holding a circlet) and two to the right of a gate, and in the lower, a procession of a stag, fish, antelope and winged bull, line border, 21 x 9 mm, and one of veined black serpentine engraved with a mounted archer aiming at a bull behind him, wedges, a plant and a rhomb in the field, crescent, eight globes and a star in the sky, line border, 34 x 13 mm (2)
CIRCA 900-700 B.C.
One of black serpentine engraved in two registers with, in the upper, two worshipers to the left (one holding a circlet) and two to the right of a gate, and in the lower, a procession of a stag, fish, antelope and winged bull, line border, 21 x 9 mm, and one of veined black serpentine engraved with a mounted archer aiming at a bull behind him, wedges, a plant and a rhomb in the field, crescent, eight globes and a star in the sky, line border, 34 x 13 mm (2)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 232 & 233