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TWO SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1720-1620 B.C.
One engraved with a worshiper holding an offering standing before a deity wearing an Egyptianized headdress and a kilt, and holding an ax and arrows(?), an ankh, table, star, and a drilling in the field, a crescent in the sky, two opposing spinxes above three men marching left as the terminal, line border, 19 x 9 mm, and one engraved with a winged goddess wearing a square horned headdress and a kilt with a back panel, holding a spear, and facing the weather god to her left, brandishing a mace and holding an ax and a flail, a Syrian woman behind him, two ankhs, a hand and a verticle line in the field, a star, and a crescent in the field, line border, 20 x 7 mm (2)
CIRCA 1720-1620 B.C.
One engraved with a worshiper holding an offering standing before a deity wearing an Egyptianized headdress and a kilt, and holding an ax and arrows(?), an ankh, table, star, and a drilling in the field, a crescent in the sky, two opposing spinxes above three men marching left as the terminal, line border, 19 x 9 mm, and one engraved with a winged goddess wearing a square horned headdress and a kilt with a back panel, holding a spear, and facing the weather god to her left, brandishing a mace and holding an ax and a flail, a Syrian woman behind him, two ankhs, a hand and a verticle line in the field, a star, and a crescent in the field, line border, 20 x 7 mm (2)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 482 & 483