AN ACHAEMENID DARK GREEN STONE CYLINDER SEAL
AN ACHAEMENID DARK GREEN STONE CYLINDER SEAL

CIRCA 5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN ACHAEMENID DARK GREEN STONE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
With a contest scene of two crossed Bes-headed felines wearing tall feathered headdresses, flanked on each side by a Persian king, holding a dagger in one hand and grasping a feathered headdress in the other
1¼ in. (3.2 cm.) high
来源
Surena collection, London, late 1970s-early 1980s.

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For other figures of Bes on Achaemenid seals cf. J. Boardman, Persia and the West, London, 2000, no. 5.17 and B. Buchanan, Catalogue of Ancient Near-Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, I. Cylinder Seals, Oxford, 1966, no. 675.