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FIVE ACHAEMENIAN CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 650-400 B.C.
One of white agate engraved with a kneeling archer aiming at a rampant mouflon, 20 x 11 mm, one of banded agate engraved with a royal figure grasping two winged bulls, 31 x 5 mm, one of brown agate engraved with a royal figure grasping two lions by the manes, a winged sun disc in the sky, 20 x 10 mm, one of banded agate engraved with a royal figure holding a foreleg of two winged sphinxes, lower section missing, 25 x 11 mm, and one of veined agate engraved with a royal figure holding two winged and bearded ibex-men, a stylized palm as the terminal, 24 x 9 mm (5)
CIRCA 650-400 B.C.
One of white agate engraved with a kneeling archer aiming at a rampant mouflon, 20 x 11 mm, one of banded agate engraved with a royal figure grasping two winged bulls, 31 x 5 mm, one of brown agate engraved with a royal figure grasping two lions by the manes, a winged sun disc in the sky, 20 x 10 mm, one of banded agate engraved with a royal figure holding a foreleg of two winged sphinxes, lower section missing, 25 x 11 mm, and one of veined agate engraved with a royal figure holding two winged and bearded ibex-men, a stylized palm as the terminal, 24 x 9 mm (5)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 288,289,290,291, & 292