CIRCA 750-600 B.C.

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A NEO-ASSYRIAN CHALCEDONY AND A NEO-BABYLONIAN CHALCEDONY CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 750-600 B.C.
Neo-Babylonian seal: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm.) long

Provenance

Marcopoli Collection, assembled in Aleppo, Syria, late 19th century.
McLendon Collection, Dallas, acquired circa 1978.
The McLendon Collection of Cylinder and Stamp Seals; Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 14 June 1993, lots 126 and 127.
Dr. Vallo Benjamin (1934-2021), New York, acquired from the above; thence by descent to the current owner.

Literature

B. Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in The Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, pp. 182-183, nos. 285-286.

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Lot Essay

The shorter cylinder seal is engraved with a short-kilted hero grasping the horns of two ibexes. There is a plant in a vase in the field, and a star and a crescent in the sky.
The taller cylinder seal is engraved with a hero wearing a quiver and armed with a scimitar holding the horns of a rearing bull. There is a rhomb, a stylus, and a marru in the field, an ankh, star and crescent in the sky.

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