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THREE SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1620 B.C.
One engraved with two facing deities, one holding a vessel with streaming water, to their right, a lion-demon holding a staff and grasping an antelope by the neck, with two opposing sphinxes above two crossed lions as the terminal, upper edge chipped, 21 x 12 mm, one engraved with five suppliant goddesses, with five three-pronged stands in the sky, line border, 23 x 11 mm, and one engraved with a falcon-headed deity facing a lion-headed deity, both wearing kilts with a tassel, and armed with swords with curved tips, the lion-headed deity holding a was scepter, two human heads and a couchant hare in the field, and to the right of the main scene, an antelope above an antelope next to a nekhbet vulture with an ankh in its talons above a bull, line border, 19 x 12 mm (3)
CIRCA 1850-1620 B.C.
One engraved with two facing deities, one holding a vessel with streaming water, to their right, a lion-demon holding a staff and grasping an antelope by the neck, with two opposing sphinxes above two crossed lions as the terminal, upper edge chipped, 21 x 12 mm, one engraved with five suppliant goddesses, with five three-pronged stands in the sky, line border, 23 x 11 mm, and one engraved with a falcon-headed deity facing a lion-headed deity, both wearing kilts with a tassel, and armed with swords with curved tips, the lion-headed deity holding a was scepter, two human heads and a couchant hare in the field, and to the right of the main scene, an antelope above an antelope next to a nekhbet vulture with an ankh in its talons above a bull, line border, 19 x 12 mm (3)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 511,512, & 514