Details
THREE SYRIAN CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1920-1840 B.C.
One of black serpentine engraved with a figure holding a cup sitting before a table with two mongooses, with a vessel with a tube in the field, crescent in the sky, and a bull with protrusion on its rump above a lion as the terminal, 16 x 8 mm, one of hematite engraved with a worshiper before a seated figure, crossed lions above two horizontal figures behind the worshiper, a second worshiper to the right, a ball staff in the field, a hare and crescent in the sky, 19 x 10 mm, and one of hematite engraved with a worshiper before a seated deity holding a cup, crossed lions above a lion behind the worshiper, a second worshiper to the right, a crouching mongoose in the field, a hare in the sky, 20 x 11 mm (3)
CIRCA 1920-1840 B.C.
One of black serpentine engraved with a figure holding a cup sitting before a table with two mongooses, with a vessel with a tube in the field, crescent in the sky, and a bull with protrusion on its rump above a lion as the terminal, 16 x 8 mm, one of hematite engraved with a worshiper before a seated figure, crossed lions above two horizontal figures behind the worshiper, a second worshiper to the right, a ball staff in the field, a hare and crescent in the sky, 19 x 10 mm, and one of hematite engraved with a worshiper before a seated deity holding a cup, crossed lions above a lion behind the worshiper, a second worshiper to the right, a crouching mongoose in the field, a hare in the sky, 20 x 11 mm (3)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 418,419, & 420