SealsNear Eastern9th-8th century BCE
Cylinder Seal: Standing Archer
c. 900-700 BCE
Description
Standing archer aims at winged bull; field: plant, rhomb, random globes; sky: seven globes arranged as a rosette, crescent, two wedges.
Dimensions
4 x 1.3 cm (1 9/16 x 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Marcopoli collection, Aleppo, (by 1984). McLendon collection, (by 1993), sold; [through Christie's, New York, June 14, 1993, lot 168], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1993.
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