LOT 2116 Syro-Cappadocian Cylinder Seal w/Contest Scenes
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18th century BC. A limestone cylinder seal with two groups in contest: a long-bearded hero with round cap and wrap skirt between two bulls, standing upright and turning back their heads, the hero wrestling with the right; to the right of this group a second long-bearded hero with a round cap, pushing a dagger in his left hand into the mouth of a rampant lion, with his right hand gripping its left paw, its s-shaped tail ends at head height; fillers appear: between hero and lion the abstractly stylised head of a bull, beneath a scorpion; between this hero and the bull a cross-shaped star, beneath the cuneiform character MAÂ; between the right bull and the second hero a snake; between him and the left bull a wedge, a fish in between, beneath a second scorpion. The wedge is typical of Northwestern Syria, cf. Otto, A. Die Entstehung und Entwicklung der klassisch-syrischen Glyptik, Berlin, New York, 2000, p.266 sub 14.7.5., the abstractly stylised head of a bull is typical of Central Anatolia (Cappadocia"). 7.05 grams, 23mm (1"). Property of a European gentleman living in London; previously from an American collection formed in the 1950s. Accompanied by a museum-quality impression.
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