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FOUR MESOPOTAMIAN CYLINDER SEALS
LATE URUK/JEMDET NASR, CIRCA 3200-2900 B.C.
One of dark gray marble engraved with a Maltese cross with encircled drill holes in the center and between the arms, next to a concentric concave-sided rectangle, 30 x 13 mm, one of dark gray marble engraved with a row of framed lozenges centered by lentoids, horizontal linear strokes above and below, 23 x 14 mm, one of light brown marble engraved with a row of framed lozenges centered by lentoids, double horizontal strokes above and below, 22 x 12 mm, and one of black serpentine engraved with irregular framed lozenges with encircled drill holes in the centers, double line border, 30 x 13 mm (4)
LATE URUK/JEMDET NASR, CIRCA 3200-2900 B.C.
One of dark gray marble engraved with a Maltese cross with encircled drill holes in the center and between the arms, next to a concentric concave-sided rectangle, 30 x 13 mm, one of dark gray marble engraved with a row of framed lozenges centered by lentoids, horizontal linear strokes above and below, 23 x 14 mm, one of light brown marble engraved with a row of framed lozenges centered by lentoids, double horizontal strokes above and below, 22 x 12 mm, and one of black serpentine engraved with irregular framed lozenges with encircled drill holes in the centers, double line border, 30 x 13 mm (4)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 17,18,19, & 20