Details
THREE MIDDLE ASSYRIAN CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1300-1200 B.C.
One of brown talc engraved with a rampant winged bull beside a tree with a shoot, a star and crescent in the field, line border, 28 x 11 mm, one of gray talc engraved with a rampant bull and an ostriche on either side of a bush, line border, damaged, 24 x 10 mm, and one of of pink chalcedony engraved with a seated figure holding a mirror, an attendant behind dressing her hair, and an attendant in front presenting two tassels?, a star in the sky, 11 x 9 mm (3)
CIRCA 1300-1200 B.C.
One of brown talc engraved with a rampant winged bull beside a tree with a shoot, a star and crescent in the field, line border, 28 x 11 mm, one of gray talc engraved with a rampant bull and an ostriche on either side of a bush, line border, damaged, 24 x 10 mm, and one of of pink chalcedony engraved with a seated figure holding a mirror, an attendant behind dressing her hair, and an attendant in front presenting two tassels?, a star in the sky, 11 x 9 mm (3)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 139,140, & 143
Colon, First Impressions, Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East, Chicago, 1987 no. 655 (for the third)
Colon, First Impressions, Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East, Chicago, 1987 no. 655 (for the third)