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FOUR SYRIAN CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
One of dark red chert engraved with a figure in a fringed mantle grasping the wrist of a bearded figure wearing a round cap with upturned rim and a fringed mantle, with an attendant wearing loincloth behind holding a three-pronged emblem, an antelope head and mongoose in the field, a vessel in the sky, with a griffin above an ibex as the terminal, line border, 22 x 10 mm, one of reddish serpentine engraved with two facing standing bearded figures wearing round caps with upturned brims, kilts, and fringed mantles, a small standing figure between them, an attendant wearing a long robe with broad fringes to the left, an antelope head in the field, a star, star disc and crescent in the sky, a griffin above a guilloche above a lion as the terminal, 23 x 10, one of hematite engraved with two facing bearded figures wearing round caps with upturned brims, kilts, and fringed mantles, a nude goddess with hands under her breast in between, an attendant wearing a long fringed robe with a tassel at the waist to the left, star disc and crescent in the sky, an ibex above a verticle guilloche as the terminal, 25 x 10 mm, and one of hematite engraved with a figure wearing a round cap with upturned brim, a kilt, and a fringed mantle, a mace at the waist, standing before a deity holding a scepter above an antelope, a winged griffin-demon above a lion behind the deity, damaged, 21 x 10 mm (4)
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.
One of dark red chert engraved with a figure in a fringed mantle grasping the wrist of a bearded figure wearing a round cap with upturned rim and a fringed mantle, with an attendant wearing loincloth behind holding a three-pronged emblem, an antelope head and mongoose in the field, a vessel in the sky, with a griffin above an ibex as the terminal, line border, 22 x 10 mm, one of reddish serpentine engraved with two facing standing bearded figures wearing round caps with upturned brims, kilts, and fringed mantles, a small standing figure between them, an attendant wearing a long robe with broad fringes to the left, an antelope head in the field, a star, star disc and crescent in the sky, a griffin above a guilloche above a lion as the terminal, 23 x 10, one of hematite engraved with two facing bearded figures wearing round caps with upturned brims, kilts, and fringed mantles, a nude goddess with hands under her breast in between, an attendant wearing a long fringed robe with a tassel at the waist to the left, star disc and crescent in the sky, an ibex above a verticle guilloche as the terminal, 25 x 10 mm, and one of hematite engraved with a figure wearing a round cap with upturned brim, a kilt, and a fringed mantle, a mace at the waist, standing before a deity holding a scepter above an antelope, a winged griffin-demon above a lion behind the deity, damaged, 21 x 10 mm (4)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 434,435,436, & 437