Details
THREE SYRIAN CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1620 B.C.
One of black serpentine engraved with the weather god in a spiked helmet brandishing a mace and holding a double fenestrated ax and a rein attached to the nose of a bull, standing on the bull, the nude goddess, with a worshiper and the suppliant goddess to the left, a bird, vessel, star, star disc and crescent in the field, a figure above guilloche above a seated lion as the terminal, 20 x 10 mm, one of hematite engraved with three figures wearing tall oval headdresses and mantles with rolled borders facing a deity to the left wearing a round helmet with double spikes or plumes and a kilt, holding a mace and a spear, the terminal composed of two seated figures with a table between them over a double spiral motif over two standing figures behind a seated figure holding a cup and receiving a row of eleven marching men which extend under the main scene, 28 x 12 mm, and one of black chert engraved with a figure wearing a mantle with rolled borders faces the weather god and the suppliant goddess to the left, with three figures further to the left, an ankh, and laden table in the field, line border, upper section missing, 15 x 10 mm (3)
CIRCA 1850-1620 B.C.
One of black serpentine engraved with the weather god in a spiked helmet brandishing a mace and holding a double fenestrated ax and a rein attached to the nose of a bull, standing on the bull, the nude goddess, with a worshiper and the suppliant goddess to the left, a bird, vessel, star, star disc and crescent in the field, a figure above guilloche above a seated lion as the terminal, 20 x 10 mm, one of hematite engraved with three figures wearing tall oval headdresses and mantles with rolled borders facing a deity to the left wearing a round helmet with double spikes or plumes and a kilt, holding a mace and a spear, the terminal composed of two seated figures with a table between them over a double spiral motif over two standing figures behind a seated figure holding a cup and receiving a row of eleven marching men which extend under the main scene, 28 x 12 mm, and one of black chert engraved with a figure wearing a mantle with rolled borders faces the weather god and the suppliant goddess to the left, with three figures further to the left, an ankh, and laden table in the field, line border, upper section missing, 15 x 10 mm (3)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 477,478, & 479