Details
TWO SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1720-1650 B.C.
One engraved with a figure wearing a high oval headdress and a mantle with rolled borders saluting a deity wearing a square headdress with plume and a kilt with back panel, armed with an ax and a bow, with, to the left, a female figure wearing an Egyptian wig and a Hathor headdress holding a forked staff and a vessel, and to the right, the suppliant goddess, star disc and crescent in the sky, line border, 21 x 10 mm, and one engraved with a female deity wearing an Egyptian wig and a Hathor headdress embraces a male figure wearing an atef crown and a kilt, with two suppliant goddesses to the right and a third to the left, line border, 19 x 9 mm (2)
CIRCA 1720-1650 B.C.
One engraved with a figure wearing a high oval headdress and a mantle with rolled borders saluting a deity wearing a square headdress with plume and a kilt with back panel, armed with an ax and a bow, with, to the left, a female figure wearing an Egyptian wig and a Hathor headdress holding a forked staff and a vessel, and to the right, the suppliant goddess, star disc and crescent in the sky, line border, 21 x 10 mm, and one engraved with a female deity wearing an Egyptian wig and a Hathor headdress embraces a male figure wearing an atef crown and a kilt, with two suppliant goddesses to the right and a third to the left, line border, 19 x 9 mm (2)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 522 & 523