A group of Near Eastern animal amulets, cylinder seals and stamp seals Circa 3000-400 B.C. Including a Jemdet Nasr recumbent greystone bull, the underside with drilled design; a white stone amulet of a standing ram, post Jemdet Nasr; four cylinder seals: A mottled cream and grey stone Akkadian cylinder engraved with lions and antelope; a grey-green stone cylinder with sun god rising at dawn; an Old Babylonian haemetite cylinder with presentation scene with inscription: the sun god Shamash and his wife Aya; a larger Assyrian black stone cylinder; a late Babylonian duck weight; two late Babylonian duck seals: a banded agate example engraved with a winged deity another orange stone duck engraved with foliage; a late Babylonian cornelian stamp seal engraved with a figure seated before an offering table; a Neo-Hittite black stone button seal engraved on each side with a quadruped; a Near Eastern lapis seal engraved with antelope and young; a Hellenistic yellow jasper intaglio engraved with a hippocamp and crab; various Near Eastern shell, cornelian, and stone animal and bird amulets and stamps seals; a large cylinder seal, six smaller cylinder seals, a ring, a fish and a ram, Not Ancient (a lot)
A group of Near Eastern animal amulets, cylinder seals and stamp seals Circa 3000-400 B.C. Including a Jemdet Nasr recumbent greystone bull, the underside with drilled design; a white stone amulet of a standing ram, post Jemdet Nasr; four cylinder seals: A mottled cream and grey stone Akkadian cylinder engraved with lions and antelope; a grey-green stone cylinder with sun god rising at dawn; an Old Babylonian haemetite cylinder with presentation scene with inscription: the sun god Shamash and his wife Aya; a larger Assyrian black stone cylinder; a late Babylonian duck weight; two late Babylonian duck seals: a banded agate example engraved with a winged deity another orange stone duck engraved with foliage; a late Babylonian cornelian stamp seal engraved with a figure seated before an offering table; a Neo-Hittite black stone button seal engraved on each side with a quadruped; a Near Eastern lapis seal engraved with antelope and young; a Hellenistic yellow jasper intaglio engraved with a hippocamp and crab; various Near Eastern shell, cornelian, and stone animal and bird amulets and stamps seals; a large cylinder seal, six smaller cylinder seals, a ring, a fish and a ram, Not Ancient (a lot)
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