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FOUR SYRIAN CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1800 B.C.
One of black serpentine engraved with four horizontal registers centrally divided by a rope pattern, with ten human heads above three lions(?) above eight human heads above three quadrupeds, 22 x 9 mm, one of black serpentine engraved with two horizontal registers divided by a denticulated line between two parallel lines, with, in the upper register, three human heads, an animal, unintelligible forms, a plant or spear, and, in the lower, animal and unintelligible forms, 22 x 9 mm, one of black serpentine divided into four compartments by thin hatched lines, with an antelope in the upper two, and a human and animal head in the lower left, and two human heads in the lower right, 24 x 12 mm, and one of hematite divided into two registers by a plait motif, the upper engraved with two lions attacking a figure between them, a figure in a long slit robe half kneeling before a rampant griffin, and a seated antelope, a star disc and crescent in the sky, the lower with six couchant animals above four human heads, line border, 20 x 7.5 mm (4)
CIRCA 1850-1800 B.C.
One of black serpentine engraved with four horizontal registers centrally divided by a rope pattern, with ten human heads above three lions(?) above eight human heads above three quadrupeds, 22 x 9 mm, one of black serpentine engraved with two horizontal registers divided by a denticulated line between two parallel lines, with, in the upper register, three human heads, an animal, unintelligible forms, a plant or spear, and, in the lower, animal and unintelligible forms, 22 x 9 mm, one of black serpentine divided into four compartments by thin hatched lines, with an antelope in the upper two, and a human and animal head in the lower left, and two human heads in the lower right, 24 x 12 mm, and one of hematite divided into two registers by a plait motif, the upper engraved with two lions attacking a figure between them, a figure in a long slit robe half kneeling before a rampant griffin, and a seated antelope, a star disc and crescent in the sky, the lower with six couchant animals above four human heads, line border, 20 x 7.5 mm (4)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 noss. 558,559,560, & 561