An Akkadian green & black serpentine cylinder seal

A choice early Dynastic black serpentine cylinder seal, c. 2900 - 2350 BC, with a detailed depiction of three deer, one of them winged, walking in a procession, symbols in the field around them. Excel

A very large Southern Anatolia green serpentine cylinder seal, 3rd Millennium BC, depicting a stylized mountain with plants and worshippers. L: 4.11cm; Dia: 2.55cm. Ex California Museum of Art De-Acce

A large Levantine black serpentine cylinder seal, c. 1400 - 1000 BC, depicting an enthroned figure facing a rampant animal, four arranged crescents beyond before an upside down figure. L: 3.0cm; W: 2.

A nice Levantine black serpentine cylinder seal, mid-2nd Millennium BC, depicting a figure above a wheel, a tree and serpent around him. L: 3.30cm. Ex California Museum of Art De-Accession, acquired 1

An Akkadian black stone cylinder seal Circa 2300-2200 B.C. Depicting a Contest Scene with a male figure fighting a bull, a scorpion behind them in the field, two further animals on their hind legs fi

Mesopotamian Akkadian Style Black Stone Cylinder Seal With Gilgamesh. Size 34 x 20 mm. Carved black stone cylinder seal in the Akkadian Style contest scene: Bearded head of a man in Bull body (Gilgame

A pair of ancient cylinder seals. Lot includes a black serpentine example, provincial Isin Larsa in style, c. 2000 - 1700 BC, depicting a standing robed figure holding a palm-frond, a cult figure behi

Inscribed Akkadian Style Cylinder Seal. Size 32 x 12 mm. Long, slender black steatite cylinder seal with impression of two male figures, one standing over the other and submitting him with a long staf

The California Museum of Ancient Art is de-accessioning lot # 228A to raise funds for its Ancient Art Acquisition Fund in order to build its growing collections. A Near Eastern black and green serpent

Green stone, apprx 28 x 18mm. In the center of the scene stands the sun-god Shamash, in a horned tiara and long flounced robe falling in creases, open at the front, where one leg projects with foot re

Carved dark green stone, apprx 12.5 x 8 mm. Depicting a contest of two symmetrical pairs; a hero with a buffalo and a hero with a lion. This seal comes with a museum quality modern impression and is a

Late Akkadian Cylinder Seal, ca. 2200-2100 BCE, Carved green stone, apprx 23 x 14mm. The heraldic eagle is shown with head up, wings spread, tail down and talons gripping the rump of a horned animal o

2nd-1st millennium BC. A group of three cylinder seals comprising: one in orange limestone depicting a king shooting a lion; one in black agate with cuneiform text; one in olive green hardstone. 21 gr

3rd millennium B.C. A banded agate cylinder seal with frieze depicting a winged hero figure grappling a winged lion, a goat seated beneath them, the scene flanked by two columns of characters (possibl

18th-16th century B.C. or later. A cylinder seal with a facing hunting god holding a bow and arrow, a quiver with a long tassel on his back, to his side goddess Ishtar standing on a mountain and armed

A Neo-Assyrian serpentine cylinder seal Circa 9th-7th Century B.C. Depicting a winged disc over a tree, flanked by men holding streamers, behind the figures, a star and wheat sheaf, with a chevron b

Akkadian Cylinder Seal, ca. 2300-2200 BCE, Carved gray stone, apprx 28 x 11mm. Figure in center of Ninkarrak, goddess of medicine, worshiped chiefly in northern Mesopotamia and Syria. The goddess stan

including a black staetite (?) seal, probably Babylonian / Assyrian depicting two figures attending a third figure seated on a throne, 1-3/8 in.; a haematite (?) seal depicting horses passant, 7/8 in.

3rd millennium B.C. A white marble cylinder seal with a pair of rearing lions gripping the hindlegs of an antelope hanging upside down, a hero attacking the second lion from behind; further two scenes

3rd millennium BC. A syenite cylinder seal engraved with a standing deity with beard and cap, holding a sceptre and flail, wearing long robes and standing on a reclining naked male; behind, a goddess

2334-2000 BC. A lapis lazuli cylinder seal with two registers separated by a trilinear band; in the upper, two 'bull-men' looking over their shoulders as each are attacked by a rampant lion, the right

2334-2000 BC. An agate cylinder seal of concave profile with two contest scenes comprising: on the right a standing bearded god is wrestling with a bull which he tramples down by pulling up its tail a

2334-2000 BC. A rock crystal cylinder seal with frieze depicting contest scenes: a rearing lion attacking a rearing goat, two symmetrically crossed rearing goats, a bull-man with horned headdress gras

A Cypriote-Levantine serpentine cylinder seal, c. 1400 - 1000 BC, with stylized warrior holding a circular shield and weapon in what appears to be a battle scene, with smaller figures and animals, pal