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THREE SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1620 B.C.
One engraved with a winged figure wearing a square horned headdress and a kilt with back panels, armed with a spear, stands facing to the left a Syrian goddess wearing a similar headdress and a mantle with rolled borders, a seated deity to the right holding two lighting bolts, a small vessel at his feet, two ankhs, one unfinished, as the terminal, 14 x 12 mm, one engraved with a weather god, a dagger at his waist, a lighting fork in one hand, the other hand raised, facing right, a worhiper in a long mantle behind him holding a branch in one hand, and a bull-man to the left with one hand raised, a scorpion in the field, a star in the sky, line border, 20 x 9 mm, and one engraved with a worshiper with one arm raised facing three deities to his left, one, the weather god brandishing a mace and holding an ax and a throw stick, the next the Syrian goddess with a raised hand, and the third wearing a horned headdress with a plume, a kilt with a long back panel, a carrying a bow over one shoulder, a branch on a stand, a scepter with circular head, an arm-and-hand emblem, and a flaming stand with a small quadruped in the field, line border, 24 x 11 mm (3)
CIRCA 1850-1620 B.C.
One engraved with a winged figure wearing a square horned headdress and a kilt with back panels, armed with a spear, stands facing to the left a Syrian goddess wearing a similar headdress and a mantle with rolled borders, a seated deity to the right holding two lighting bolts, a small vessel at his feet, two ankhs, one unfinished, as the terminal, 14 x 12 mm, one engraved with a weather god, a dagger at his waist, a lighting fork in one hand, the other hand raised, facing right, a worhiper in a long mantle behind him holding a branch in one hand, and a bull-man to the left with one hand raised, a scorpion in the field, a star in the sky, line border, 20 x 9 mm, and one engraved with a worshiper with one arm raised facing three deities to his left, one, the weather god brandishing a mace and holding an ax and a throw stick, the next the Syrian goddess with a raised hand, and the third wearing a horned headdress with a plume, a kilt with a long back panel, a carrying a bow over one shoulder, a branch on a stand, a scepter with circular head, an arm-and-hand emblem, and a flaming stand with a small quadruped in the field, line border, 24 x 11 mm (3)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 472,473, & 474