A RARE SYRIAN CREAM STONE CYINDER SEAL WITH BOAT GOD SCENE
CIRCA MID-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
Showing a boat god on whom is seated a lyre player wearing a long robe, the boat god shown as an anthropomorphised deified boat, the prow with human head and arms depicted rowing, wearing crescentic headdress, the stern rendered as a triangular tail, a scorpion man with both arms upraised behind
1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) high
A RARE SYRIAN CREAM STONE CYINDER SEAL WITH BOAT GOD SCENE
CIRCA MID-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
Showing a boat god on whom is seated a lyre player wearing a long robe, the boat god shown as an anthropomorphised deified boat, the prow with human head and arms depicted rowing, wearing crescentic headdress, the stern rendered as a triangular tail, a scorpion man with both arms upraised behind
1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) high