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FOUR SYRIAN CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 2900-2200 B.C.
One of white marble engraved with an hero in combat with goat, a reversed lion to the right, drill holes and a crescent in the field, v-shape, a bird, a reversed crescent and a floral shape as the terminal, 25 x 14 mm, one of black serpentine engraved with a crossed lion and a bearded bull with frontal head, a rampant gazell and bull on either side, a pommel-shape in the field, 26 x 12 mm, one of gray marble engraved with a figure grasping two antelope or goats, two vertical couchant antelope above a couchant antelope and an ibex, 27 x 12 mm, and one of white marble engraved with two seated figures wearing flounced robes, a vessel with four tubes in between them, with a latticed structure behind with a drilling in the center and three drillings above, two birds and a star in the field, a scorpion and a vessel with three tubes as the terminal, 22 x 13 mm (4)
CIRCA 2900-2200 B.C.
One of white marble engraved with an hero in combat with goat, a reversed lion to the right, drill holes and a crescent in the field, v-shape, a bird, a reversed crescent and a floral shape as the terminal, 25 x 14 mm, one of black serpentine engraved with a crossed lion and a bearded bull with frontal head, a rampant gazell and bull on either side, a pommel-shape in the field, 26 x 12 mm, one of gray marble engraved with a figure grasping two antelope or goats, two vertical couchant antelope above a couchant antelope and an ibex, 27 x 12 mm, and one of white marble engraved with two seated figures wearing flounced robes, a vessel with four tubes in between them, with a latticed structure behind with a drilling in the center and three drillings above, two birds and a star in the field, a scorpion and a vessel with three tubes as the terminal, 22 x 13 mm (4)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 342,343,344, & 345