SealsSyrian2nd millennium BCE
Cylinder Seal: Figure Holding a Crook Faces a Female Deity; Antelope, Griffin, and Lions"
1850-1600 BCE
Description
Figure wearing a round cap and a fringed mantle, and carrying a staff stands before a seminude goddess; two opposing lions below an antelope and a griffin flanking a tree.
Dimensions
H: 1.9cm; Diam. 1.1cm
Provenance
Marcopoli collection, Aleppo, (by 1984). McLendon collection, (by 1993), sold; [through Christie's, New York, June 14, 1993, lot 132], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1993.
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