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THREE SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
One engraved with two standing figures facing left wearing long fringed robes, with one hand raised, behind them are a rampant animal and an eagle with outspread wings and a seated griffin below a seated animal, 19 x 9 mm, one engraved with three men marching left, wearing kilts, the first with one hand raised, a seated crested griffin in front of them, a jug and linear object in the field, a vertical scroll pattern as the terminal, line border, 17 x 9 mm, and one engraved with four horizontal marching kilted men, with two opposing birds above two opposing lions to the right, a vessel between the two birds, vertical guilloche for the terminal, line border, 15 x 9 mm (3)
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
One engraved with two standing figures facing left wearing long fringed robes, with one hand raised, behind them are a rampant animal and an eagle with outspread wings and a seated griffin below a seated animal, 19 x 9 mm, one engraved with three men marching left, wearing kilts, the first with one hand raised, a seated crested griffin in front of them, a jug and linear object in the field, a vertical scroll pattern as the terminal, line border, 17 x 9 mm, and one engraved with four horizontal marching kilted men, with two opposing birds above two opposing lions to the right, a vessel between the two birds, vertical guilloche for the terminal, line border, 15 x 9 mm (3)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 553,554, & 555