Akkadian Haematite Cylinder Seal with Presentation Scene

LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

7/8 in. (7.43 grams, 22.84 mm).

With incuse frieze depicting a standing robed figure with one leg and one arm extended, holding a sceptre towards a supplicant in ankle-length garment standing beside a frond; sun-disc above the bird's head; third standing figure in flounced garment and with both hands raised above an altar. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From a Scottish private collection, Perthshire, 1990s.

Footnotes

About one third of the surface of the seal has been left blank; this was probably intended to be inscribed with a cuneiform text.

CONDITION

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