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THREE SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1650 B.C.
One engraved with a male figure wearing an atef-like crown and a female figure with a floral headdress, the two holding a lotus plant between them, an ankh, head of hare, oval-shaped emblem with globes on a stand in the field, with two rampant ibexes with turned heads as the terminal, line border, 20 x 7 mm, one engraved with a male figure wearing an atef-like crown and a kilt, holding two throw-sticks, standing before a female deity in an Egyptian wig wearing a Hathor headdress with ram's horns, holding a lotus plant and an unknown object, with a figure holding a was scepter to the right, an ibex with turned head, vessel, bird, and a plant in the field, star disc and crescent in the sky, and a lion and mongoose above a plinth above a small kneeling figure wearing Egyptianized headdress and an ibex as the terminal, 20 x 10 mm, and one engraved with a female deity wearing an Egyptianized headdress with ram's horns and holding an ankh, standing before a male figure wearing an atef-like crown and a kilt and holding a throw stick, the two figures grasping a scepter between them, and, to the right, a female attendant with head covered holds a palm frond, a ball staff in the field, a star, and a hand in the sky, a hare above guilloche above an ibex as the terminal, line border, 18.5 x 9.5 mm (3)
CIRCA 1850-1650 B.C.
One engraved with a male figure wearing an atef-like crown and a female figure with a floral headdress, the two holding a lotus plant between them, an ankh, head of hare, oval-shaped emblem with globes on a stand in the field, with two rampant ibexes with turned heads as the terminal, line border, 20 x 7 mm, one engraved with a male figure wearing an atef-like crown and a kilt, holding two throw-sticks, standing before a female deity in an Egyptian wig wearing a Hathor headdress with ram's horns, holding a lotus plant and an unknown object, with a figure holding a was scepter to the right, an ibex with turned head, vessel, bird, and a plant in the field, star disc and crescent in the sky, and a lion and mongoose above a plinth above a small kneeling figure wearing Egyptianized headdress and an ibex as the terminal, 20 x 10 mm, and one engraved with a female deity wearing an Egyptianized headdress with ram's horns and holding an ankh, standing before a male figure wearing an atef-like crown and a kilt and holding a throw stick, the two figures grasping a scepter between them, and, to the right, a female attendant with head covered holds a palm frond, a ball staff in the field, a star, and a hand in the sky, a hare above guilloche above an ibex as the terminal, line border, 18.5 x 9.5 mm (3)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 519,520, & 521