AN OLD BABYLONIAN HAEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL, showing the robed figure of a king making an offering of a gazelle before the sun god, Shamash, who holds a knife in his left hand and rests his foot on a mountain, behind is the frontally facing winged warrior goddess, Ishtar, who rests one foot on her symbol the lion, holding a mace in her left hand and a scimitar-sword in her right, beside her another frontally facing nude goddess standing on a plinth, probably representing Ishtar in her sexual aspect, minor chips, circa 18th Century B.C.