A NEO-ASSYRIAN WHITE AND YELLOW VEINED STONE CYLINDER SEAL, in drilled and cut style, showing a hero grasping the foreleg of a rampant bull and the hindleg of another, inverted, a star, crescent, rhomboid and fish in the field, 1 1/8in. (2.7cm.) high; another, serpentine, with a seated figure holding a cup before whom stands an attendant with a fan, an offering table between them and a tree in the field, worn, 1¼in. (3.1cm.) high, both circa 8th Century B.C.; a Lydian blue chalcedony stamp seal, with two confronting lions, two ibexes with suckling young and a diminutive animal below, small chips, pierced, 6th-5th Century B.C., ½in. (1.3cm.) high; an Old Babylonian haematite cylinder seal with a suppliant goddess before a king holding a mace and another deity, a three-line inscription reads "Shulpae'a Great lord of Ninsun(?) His... not...", worn, 1./1/8in. (2.8cm.) high; another, showing the sun god, Shamash, with one foot raised and holding a knife, with a priest behind, being approached by a king bearing an animal offering with a suppliant goddess, worn, ¾in. (1.8cm.) high, both 1850-1750 B.C.; a Sumerian lapis lazuli cylinder seal with a contest scene, a standing hero grasping the horns of two ibexes, with two attendant figures flanking, Early Dynastic III, circa 2600-2400 B.C., 7/8in. (2.2cm.) high; and an agate cylinder seal, 1 1/8in. (2.8cm.) high (7)
A NEO-ASSYRIAN WHITE AND YELLOW VEINED STONE CYLINDER SEAL, in drilled and cut style, showing a hero grasping the foreleg of a rampant bull and the hindleg of another, inverted, a star, crescent, rhomboid and fish in the field, 1 1/8in. (2.7cm.) high; another, serpentine, with a seated figure holding a cup before whom stands an attendant with a fan, an offering table between them and a tree in the field, worn, 1¼in. (3.1cm.) high, both circa 8th Century B.C.; a Lydian blue chalcedony stamp seal, with two confronting lions, two ibexes with suckling young and a diminutive animal below, small chips, pierced, 6th-5th Century B.C., ½in. (1.3cm.) high; an Old Babylonian haematite cylinder seal with a suppliant goddess before a king holding a mace and another deity, a three-line inscription reads "Shulpae'a Great lord of Ninsun(?) His... not...", worn, 1./1/8in. (2.8cm.) high; another, showing the sun god, Shamash, with one foot raised and holding a knife, with a priest behind, being approached by a king bearing an animal offering with a suppliant goddess, worn, ¾in. (1.8cm.) high, both 1850-1750 B.C.; a Sumerian lapis lazuli cylinder seal with a contest scene, a standing hero grasping the horns of two ibexes, with two attendant figures flanking, Early Dynastic III, circa 2600-2400 B.C., 7/8in. (2.2cm.) high; and an agate cylinder seal, 1 1/8in. (2.8cm.) high (7)
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