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CIRCA LATE 19TH/MID-18TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN OLD BABYLONIAN HAEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA LATE 19TH/MID-18TH CENTURY B.C.
With two scenes, a seated deity being approached by a worshipper and a standing deified king with suppliant goddess in front, a solar-crescent between them, the terminal as a frontal goddess exposing herself by holding up the hem of her skirt, a recumbent ibex below, small edge chip; and an Old Babylonian red and white mottled stone cylinder seal with the frontally facing warrior-goddess, Ishtar, with weapons at her shoulders, brandishing a scimitar-sword and a double lion-headed sceptre, one foot raised on a lion, flanked by two suppliant goddesses, a crescent and two globes above, inscribed in cuneiform, "Shamash, Aya" (the sun-god and his consort), a groundline under the scene, traces of bronze pin
1 in. (2.4 cm.) and 1 3/16 in. (2.9 cm.) high respectively (2)
CIRCA LATE 19TH/MID-18TH CENTURY B.C.
With two scenes, a seated deity being approached by a worshipper and a standing deified king with suppliant goddess in front, a solar-crescent between them, the terminal as a frontal goddess exposing herself by holding up the hem of her skirt, a recumbent ibex below, small edge chip; and an Old Babylonian red and white mottled stone cylinder seal with the frontally facing warrior-goddess, Ishtar, with weapons at her shoulders, brandishing a scimitar-sword and a double lion-headed sceptre, one foot raised on a lion, flanked by two suppliant goddesses, a crescent and two globes above, inscribed in cuneiform, "Shamash, Aya" (the sun-god and his consort), a groundline under the scene, traces of bronze pin
1 in. (2.4 cm.) and 1 3/16 in. (2.9 cm.) high respectively (2)
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