Details
THREE SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1900-1650 B.C.
One engraved with two seated facing figures toasting each other with raised drinking vessels, a female attendant with a was scepter to the right, six drill holes in the sky, line border, 17.5 x 8 mm, one engraved with a seated deity facing right and wearing a horned headdress, with two superimposed animals behind, six bull's heads and five human heads in columns separated by robe-like borders as the terminal, 17 x 10 mm, and one engraved with a seated figure with frontal face, a belted hero with necklace to his left holding a jug, a deity holding a scepter and in ascending position over a sphinx to the right, a rampant lion above the sphinx, a small kneeling figure in front of the seated figure, a couchant animal, star disc and crescent in the sky, 16 x 7 mm (3)
CIRCA 1900-1650 B.C.
One engraved with two seated facing figures toasting each other with raised drinking vessels, a female attendant with a was scepter to the right, six drill holes in the sky, line border, 17.5 x 8 mm, one engraved with a seated deity facing right and wearing a horned headdress, with two superimposed animals behind, six bull's heads and five human heads in columns separated by robe-like borders as the terminal, 17 x 10 mm, and one engraved with a seated figure with frontal face, a belted hero with necklace to his left holding a jug, a deity holding a scepter and in ascending position over a sphinx to the right, a rampant lion above the sphinx, a small kneeling figure in front of the seated figure, a couchant animal, star disc and crescent in the sky, 16 x 7 mm (3)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 466,467, & 468