A NEO-ASSYRIAN STRIPEY GREY AND WHITE FAIENCE CYLINDER SEAL, showing an archer aiming at an ostrich, 3.5cm. high; and another Neo-Assyrian mottled red stone seal, with two kneeling bearded figures flanking a sacred tree, above which is a winged disc, 3cm. high, both 9th-8th Century B.C.; a Syrian or Hittite bronze seal with a central register of herringbone pattern, flanked by bands of dots, 1.2cm. high, 13th Century B.C.; an Egyptian blue Mitannian seal showing three figures flanked by two horned animals, 2cm. high, circa 1400-1200 B.C.; a Jemdet Nasr translucent calcite seal with crossed and lozenge linear decoration, 2.3cm. high; a Jemdet Nasr white stone seal with crossed animals(?), 1.4cm. high, both Early Dynastic I, circa 3000 B.C.; and another Jemdet Nasr red stone seal with walking male and female horned animals, 1.8cm. high, probably Early Dynastic, circa 3000 B.C. (7)

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A NEO-ASSYRIAN STRIPEY GREY AND WHITE FAIENCE CYLINDER SEAL, showing an archer aiming at an ostrich, 3.5cm. high; and another Neo-Assyrian mottled red stone seal, with two kneeling bearded figures flanking a sacred tree, above which is a winged disc, 3cm. high, both 9th-8th Century B.C.; a Syrian or Hittite bronze seal with a central register of herringbone pattern, flanked by bands of dots, 1.2cm. high, 13th Century B.C.; an Egyptian blue Mitannian seal showing three figures flanked by two horned animals, 2cm. high, circa 1400-1200 B.C.; a Jemdet Nasr translucent calcite seal with crossed and lozenge linear decoration, 2.3cm. high; a Jemdet Nasr white stone seal with crossed animals(?), 1.4cm. high, both Early Dynastic I, circa 3000 B.C.; and another Jemdet Nasr red stone seal with walking male and female horned animals, 1.8cm. high, probably Early Dynastic, circa 3000 B.C. (7)

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