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FIVE MESOPOTAMIAN CYLINDER SEALS
LATE URUK/JEMDET NASR, CIRCA 3200-2900 B.C.
One of black marble engraved with irregular lozenges with encircled drill holes in the centers, line borders, 22 x 17 mm, one of black serpentine engraved with irregular latice centered by a lozenge enclosing an encircled drill hole, 12 x 9 mm, one of gray marble engraved with a hatched zigzag, one triangle enclosing three drill holes, the other triangle enclosing one, 18 x 7 mm, one of white marble with brown spots engraved with opposing triangles filled with linear strokes, 18 x 12 mm, and one of black chert engraved with double zigzag with oblique lines, 31 x 25 mm (5)
LATE URUK/JEMDET NASR, CIRCA 3200-2900 B.C.
One of black marble engraved with irregular lozenges with encircled drill holes in the centers, line borders, 22 x 17 mm, one of black serpentine engraved with irregular latice centered by a lozenge enclosing an encircled drill hole, 12 x 9 mm, one of gray marble engraved with a hatched zigzag, one triangle enclosing three drill holes, the other triangle enclosing one, 18 x 7 mm, one of white marble with brown spots engraved with opposing triangles filled with linear strokes, 18 x 12 mm, and one of black chert engraved with double zigzag with oblique lines, 31 x 25 mm (5)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 21,22,23,24, & 25