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TWO SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
One engraved with a bearded figure with a long curled plait, wearing a round cap with an upturned brim and fringed mantle, and armed with a throw-stick, standing opposite a bareheaded, bearded figure with a short curled plait, wearing a fringed mantle and armed with a short weapon, between them a pole with curved ends surmounted by a disc and crescent, two opposing hares above a quatrefoil guilloche above a recumbent animal as the terminal, 21 x 10 mm, and one engraved with two facing figures in round caps with upturned brims and fringed mantels, a crouching mongoose between them, rosette in the sky, two facing seated griffins above guilloche above two facing hares as the terminal, 17 x 9 mm (2)
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
One engraved with a bearded figure with a long curled plait, wearing a round cap with an upturned brim and fringed mantle, and armed with a throw-stick, standing opposite a bareheaded, bearded figure with a short curled plait, wearing a fringed mantle and armed with a short weapon, between them a pole with curved ends surmounted by a disc and crescent, two opposing hares above a quatrefoil guilloche above a recumbent animal as the terminal, 21 x 10 mm, and one engraved with two facing figures in round caps with upturned brims and fringed mantels, a crouching mongoose between them, rosette in the sky, two facing seated griffins above guilloche above two facing hares as the terminal, 17 x 9 mm (2)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 439 & 441