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Cylinder seal
Near Eastern, Mesopotamian, Assyrian
Neo-Assyrian
883–612 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Chalcedony
Dimensions
Legacy dimension: 36.5 x 17 mm
Credit Line
William Francis Warden Fund and funds donated by Mrs. Oric Bates, Mrs. F. Carrington Weems, and Horace L. Mayer
Accession Number65.1660
CollectionsAncient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsSeals
DescriptionNeo-Assyrian modeled style. God carrying bow and sword, holding ring, stands on a horned and winged lion demon with scorpion's tail. Behind the god stands a bearded scorpion man holding a situla and a winged genius holding a mace. In front of the god stands a worshipper (owner of seal?) and a deity upon a stool wearing a horned headdress surmounted by a star and holding a ring. Crescent and the seven dots (the Pleiades) in the field above.
Provenance1965, sold by R. Moussa, through Ali Tehranian, Little Falls, NJ, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 10, 1965)