FOUR SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS

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FOUR SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1720 B.C.

One engraved with a nude male kneeling figure holding a lotus plant, a somersaulting antelope before him, and a winged spinx to the right, two vessels in the sky, dotted guilloche above, line border, 17 x 8 mm, one engraved with a figure in a loincloth holding a short staff with an angular tip kneeling before a kneeling griffin-demon holding two decorated staves, with two birds as the terminal, line border, 16 x 7 mm, one engraved with a female figure and a kneeling figure in a loin cloth, a kneeling winged lion-demon wearing a loin cloth in between them, with five scorpions as the terminal, 16 x 10 mm, and one engraved with a female figure with one hand raised, a figure in a slit robe holding a spear, and a figure in a fringed mantle with one hand raised, the three facing a kneeling griffin-demon holding a lion scepter, 17 x 9 mm (4)
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Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 526,527,528, & 529