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FIVE SYRIAN CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 2900-2200 B.C.
One of black serpentine engraved in two registers, above with a cross of triangles and a squating female figure with her hair to one side, and below with a scorpion, comb device, double wedge, vertical line and swastika, 27 x 10 mm, one of black serpentine engraved with a scorpion man with raised arms and a lion, a bird on a table between them, two wedges and an animal leg in the field, line border, 26 x 7.5 mm, one of black serpentine engraved with a seated figure drinking from a vessel through a tube, and a bull-man in combat with two lions, a branch in the field, crescent above, 26 x 13 mm, one of white marble engraved in two registers, above with horned quadrupeds, below with horizontal human figures above festooned lines, drill holes below, the registers divided by three parallel lines with chevron, 23 x 11.5 mm, and one of white marble engraved in two registers, above with two horizontal long-handled pots, a rosette, and schematic pots(?), below with a row of horizontal long-handled pots, the registers divided by two parallel lines enclosing chevron, 16 x 8 mm (5)
CIRCA 2900-2200 B.C.
One of black serpentine engraved in two registers, above with a cross of triangles and a squating female figure with her hair to one side, and below with a scorpion, comb device, double wedge, vertical line and swastika, 27 x 10 mm, one of black serpentine engraved with a scorpion man with raised arms and a lion, a bird on a table between them, two wedges and an animal leg in the field, line border, 26 x 7.5 mm, one of black serpentine engraved with a seated figure drinking from a vessel through a tube, and a bull-man in combat with two lions, a branch in the field, crescent above, 26 x 13 mm, one of white marble engraved in two registers, above with horned quadrupeds, below with horizontal human figures above festooned lines, drill holes below, the registers divided by three parallel lines with chevron, 23 x 11.5 mm, and one of white marble engraved in two registers, above with two horizontal long-handled pots, a rosette, and schematic pots(?), below with a row of horizontal long-handled pots, the registers divided by two parallel lines enclosing chevron, 16 x 8 mm (5)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 334,335,336,337, & 338