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TWO SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
One engraved with a goddess wearing only a bodice with her hands clasped under her breasts, standing between two worshipers raising a hand in salute, a winged griffin-demon with a disc and crescent headdress to one side, a ball staff, scorpion, fish, and vessel in the field, a star and fly in the sky, line border, 22 x 11 mm, and one engraved with a goddess wearing curled toe shoes lifting a schematic veil to reveal herself, a worshiper on either side, the one to the right with an arm raised in salute, a hand and a vessel in the field, a bird above a fish as the terminal, line border, 18 x 9 mm (2)
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
One engraved with a goddess wearing only a bodice with her hands clasped under her breasts, standing between two worshipers raising a hand in salute, a winged griffin-demon with a disc and crescent headdress to one side, a ball staff, scorpion, fish, and vessel in the field, a star and fly in the sky, line border, 22 x 11 mm, and one engraved with a goddess wearing curled toe shoes lifting a schematic veil to reveal herself, a worshiper on either side, the one to the right with an arm raised in salute, a hand and a vessel in the field, a bird above a fish as the terminal, line border, 18 x 9 mm (2)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 495 & 496