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SIX SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1620 B.C.
One engraved with a nude goddess lifting a schematic veil to reveal herself, with a winged figure in ascending position holding a stylized lion sceptor and a winged griffin-demon holding a spear to her right, a bird, fish, human head, and hare in the field, a crouching mongoose in the sky, line border, 16 x 10 mm, one engraved with a nude goddess holding two vessels standing between two seated figures each holding a curved staff, a fish(?) in the field, a bird above a figure as the terminal, line border, 17 x 9 mm, one engraved with a nude goddess lifting a schematic veil to reveal herself standing between two worhipers lifting a hand in salute, two ankhs in the field, crescent in the sky, a bird above guilloche above a hare as the terminal, line border, 16 x 8 mm, one engraved with a nude goddess under a canopy and standing on a bull, an Egyptianized figure to her right, two figures above three to her left, a hand in the field, an ankh and winged sun disc in the sky, fragmentary, 19 x 3 mm, and two engraved with figures standing on either side of a sacred tree, with rampant animals or monsters as the terminal, 14 x 9 mm (lower section missing), 23 x 10 mm, (lower section missing) (6)
CIRCA 1850-1620 B.C.
One engraved with a nude goddess lifting a schematic veil to reveal herself, with a winged figure in ascending position holding a stylized lion sceptor and a winged griffin-demon holding a spear to her right, a bird, fish, human head, and hare in the field, a crouching mongoose in the sky, line border, 16 x 10 mm, one engraved with a nude goddess holding two vessels standing between two seated figures each holding a curved staff, a fish(?) in the field, a bird above a figure as the terminal, line border, 17 x 9 mm, one engraved with a nude goddess lifting a schematic veil to reveal herself standing between two worhipers lifting a hand in salute, two ankhs in the field, crescent in the sky, a bird above guilloche above a hare as the terminal, line border, 16 x 8 mm, one engraved with a nude goddess under a canopy and standing on a bull, an Egyptianized figure to her right, two figures above three to her left, a hand in the field, an ankh and winged sun disc in the sky, fragmentary, 19 x 3 mm, and two engraved with figures standing on either side of a sacred tree, with rampant animals or monsters as the terminal, 14 x 9 mm (lower section missing), 23 x 10 mm, (lower section missing) (6)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 497,498,499,500,501, & 502