Details
FOUR SYRIAN CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1620 B.C.
One of hematite engraved with three vertical registers, from left to right, two scorpions, a hare, and two birds, line border, 11 x 7 mm, one of hematite engraved with two horizontal registers divided by a row of excentric guilloche with, above, four hares, and below, three scorpions, 11 x 7 mm, one of black chert engraved divided into vertical registers, from left to right, a crocodile and two fish, four rabbits, three antelope, three hares, three stags, quadrilateral scroll motif, four ducks, three bulls, three mouflons, and a double lotus design, 20 x 13 mm, and one of hematite engraved with an antelope, two ibexes, two hares, and a rampant lion, with a star, star disc and crescent in the sky, an oblique guilloche as the terminal, line border, 13 x 7 mm (4)
CIRCA 1850-1620 B.C.
One of hematite engraved with three vertical registers, from left to right, two scorpions, a hare, and two birds, line border, 11 x 7 mm, one of hematite engraved with two horizontal registers divided by a row of excentric guilloche with, above, four hares, and below, three scorpions, 11 x 7 mm, one of black chert engraved divided into vertical registers, from left to right, a crocodile and two fish, four rabbits, three antelope, three hares, three stags, quadrilateral scroll motif, four ducks, three bulls, three mouflons, and a double lotus design, 20 x 13 mm, and one of hematite engraved with an antelope, two ibexes, two hares, and a rampant lion, with a star, star disc and crescent in the sky, an oblique guilloche as the terminal, line border, 13 x 7 mm (4)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 566,567,568, & 569
Collon, First Impressions, Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East, Chicago, 1987, no. 897 (for the third)
Collon, First Impressions, Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East, Chicago, 1987, no. 897 (for the third)