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SIX SYRIAN HEMATITE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 1850-1620 B.C.
One engraved with two facing figures wearing fringed robes with curved staves, an attendant figure to the left wearing a kilt, with one arm raised, a vessel and head of a hare in the field, a couchant hare above a seated lion as the terminal, line border, 19 x 8 mm, one engraved with two facing figures in fringed dresses, holding palm fronds, an offering stand between them, a third figure to the right holding a spear, a vessel in the field, a star in the sky, with a bird above guilloche above a bird(?) as the terminal, 19 x 9 mm, one engraved with two facing suppliant goddesses, a laden table between them, each with an attendant with raised hands behind them, the one on the right holding a branch, an animal in the field, a crescent in the sky, with a bird, hare, and rampant griffin as the terminal, line border, 19 x 10 mm, one engraved with two figures with turned heads wearing fringed kilts and cropped hair, holding flat loaves(?) between them over a laden table, a star disc and crescent in the sky, with two opposing ibexes above guilloche above three marching men as the terminal, line border, damaged, 23 x 9 mm, one engraved with two bull-men holding a pole between them, with a lion attacking an antelope above guilloche above three combating or dancing figures as the terminal, 21 x 8 mm, and one engraved with two facing figures wearing loincloths with frontal panels and pennoned headdresses, carrying scimitars over their shoulders, and saluting each other, a sacred tree between them, with a couchant ibex over a linear border over a winged griffin as the terminal, linear borders, 24 x 10 mm (6)
CIRCA 1850-1620 B.C.
One engraved with two facing figures wearing fringed robes with curved staves, an attendant figure to the left wearing a kilt, with one arm raised, a vessel and head of a hare in the field, a couchant hare above a seated lion as the terminal, line border, 19 x 8 mm, one engraved with two facing figures in fringed dresses, holding palm fronds, an offering stand between them, a third figure to the right holding a spear, a vessel in the field, a star in the sky, with a bird above guilloche above a bird(?) as the terminal, 19 x 9 mm, one engraved with two facing suppliant goddesses, a laden table between them, each with an attendant with raised hands behind them, the one on the right holding a branch, an animal in the field, a crescent in the sky, with a bird, hare, and rampant griffin as the terminal, line border, 19 x 10 mm, one engraved with two figures with turned heads wearing fringed kilts and cropped hair, holding flat loaves(?) between them over a laden table, a star disc and crescent in the sky, with two opposing ibexes above guilloche above three marching men as the terminal, line border, damaged, 23 x 9 mm, one engraved with two bull-men holding a pole between them, with a lion attacking an antelope above guilloche above three combating or dancing figures as the terminal, 21 x 8 mm, and one engraved with two facing figures wearing loincloths with frontal panels and pennoned headdresses, carrying scimitars over their shoulders, and saluting each other, a sacred tree between them, with a couchant ibex over a linear border over a winged griffin as the terminal, linear borders, 24 x 10 mm (6)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 538,540,541,542,543, & 544