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PROPERTY FROM THE LIGABUE FAMILY COLLECTION
AN AKKADIAN WHITE STONE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 2300-2159 B.C.
细节
AN AKKADIAN WHITE STONE CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 2300-2159 B.C.
With mottled purple veins, engraved with the goddess Ishtar seated to the left, with three weapons rising up from each shoulder, wearing a flounced garment and a horned headdress, a diminutive attendant goddess standing behind her, a biconical stand before her, an intermediary god to the right in a long kilt and a horned headdress presenting a worshipper holding a small animal, a child in between them, a worshipper behind them holding a situla, a star disk, a crescent and a circle in the sky
1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm.) high
CIRCA 2300-2159 B.C.
With mottled purple veins, engraved with the goddess Ishtar seated to the left, with three weapons rising up from each shoulder, wearing a flounced garment and a horned headdress, a diminutive attendant goddess standing behind her, a biconical stand before her, an intermediary god to the right in a long kilt and a horned headdress presenting a worshipper holding a small animal, a child in between them, a worshipper behind them holding a situla, a star disk, a crescent and a circle in the sky
1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm.) high
来源
with Elie Borowski, Basel, 1970s.
出版
F.M. Fales, Prima dell'alfabeto, Venice, 1989,
p. 258, fig. 9.
p. 258, fig. 9.