SealsHurrian2nd millennium BCE
Cylinder Seal: Figures Flanking a Tree
c. 1550-1350 BCE
Description
Two figures in fringed robes, hands clasped, flank a tree; recumbent stags with guilloche (cable) and foliate motif.
Dimensions
2.5 x 1.2 cm (1 x 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Marcopoli collection, Aleppo, (by 1984). McLendon collection, (by 1993), sold; [through Christie's, New York, June 14, 1993, lot 208], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1993.
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