A nice steatite Levantine cylinder seal

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

A Egyptian-Levantine steatite cylinder seal with cobras, c. 2nd Millennium BC, the serpents stand one next to the other between a double line border. L: 21mm. Light deposits. Ex Detroit private collec

A Levantine green steatite cylinder seal, 2nd Millennium BC, depicting a pair of standing male figures, one holding a sceptre and the other placing his hand on a hare beside him. To right is a column

A small Levantine carnelian cylinder seal, 2nd Millennium BC, with stylized scene depicting perhaps an altar. L: 13.5 mm. Nice translucent orange stone. Ex Northern California private collection.

Large Akkadian Steatite Cylinder seal, c. 2300-2200 B.C.Two crossed lions attacking horned arrivals, hero to left; filler, terminal, tree.Comes with full translation and dating by Professor W.G. Lambe

Ancient Near East, Neo-Babylonian, ca. 1000 to 539 BCE. This is a very interesting steatite (soapstone) cylinder seal depicting a man with traditional hair and beard style familiar from Babylonian art

Ancient Sumeria / Mesopotamia, ca. 11th century BCE. A small steatite cylinder seal, its surface engraved in intaglio with a pair of conversing figures, perhaps a female deity standing before a male f

A large Mesopotamian black steatite cylinder seal, c. 2300 - 2200 BC, depicting a hero, possibly Gilgamesh, engaged with two pairs of lions attacking rampant human-headed animals. Nicely detailed with

Ancient Sumeria/Mesopotamia, ca. 11th century BCE. A small steatite cylinder seal, its surface engraved in intaglio with a pair of figures standing before a lord or deity, stars above. When rolled in

A Peripheral Early Dynastic steatite cylinder seal, 3rd Millennium BC, depicting standing figure wearing long gowns flanked by small figures standing on the back of a quadruped, a winged mythological

Title: Bactrian Steatite Cylinder Seal, c. 2000 B.C. Date & Origin: Bactrian, c. 2000 B.C. Material: Steatite Dimension: 3.3 cm L - 1 5/16 inch Provenance: Private North London collection 1990s, acqui

Title: Assyrian Steatite Cylinder Seal Date/Origin: Neo-Assyrian, c. 900-750 B.C. Description: Standing king on the right in long robe holding bow in one hand and a cup in the other. Facing him a serv

A northern Syrian black steatite cylinder seal, 2nd Millennium BC, depicting a standing figure with hand raised next to a facing winged animal, a scorpion and a pellet between them. L: 18mm. Ex Northe

A North Syrian black steatite cylinder seal, 2nd Millennium BC, depicting a male figure standing next to winged deity or altar, a pair of birds opposite. 23mm. Ex Los Angeles private collection.

Ancient Egyptian Steatite Cylinder Seal Middle Kingdom 2040-1782 BC. Size 15 x 6 mm. Green glazed steatite cylinder seal with seated official, private name cartouch. impresion of seal in white clay. P

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East, Syria to Northern Iraq, Proto-Literate Period, ca. 3500 to 3000 BCE. A slender cylinder seal bead that is hand-carved from blue-gray steatite with smoo

2nd-1st millennium B.C. With frieze depicting a bird with wings spread above an advancing canine, tree and leaping goat. Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collecti

Description: A carved cylinder seal carved from black steatite, which is a type of metamorphic rock. It's engraved with written characters. They were used as administrative tools, signatures or jewelr

Title: Babylonian Steatite Cylinder Seal, Worshipper and God, c. 1800 B.C. Date/Period: Old Babylonian, c. 1800 B.C. Description: Engraved with a kneeling worshipper in front of a standing god, offeri

A red-brown steatite cylinder seal, Neo-Assyrian, c. 8th - 7th Century BC, a provincial type, depicting horned antelope, stalk between them and a star and crescent in field. H: 2.2 cm. Ex Wiltshire, U

A Proto-Elamite tan steatite cylinder seal, 3rd Millennium BC, with 20 registers of vertical lines. L: 1.6cm; W: 1.3cm. Ex-California Museum of Ancient Art (CS3105), acquired 1989.

A Neo-Assyrian red steatite cylinder seal, 8th - 7th Century BC, with a contest scene with a pair of deities engaged, archer behind and spade of Marduk. L: 3.2 cm. Ex California Museum of Ancient Art

A post Kassite steatite cylinder seal, 2nd Millennium BC, depicting an outlined cross with tree above, spiral rhomboid and triangular marks. L: 4.1 cm. Ex California Museum of Ancient Art de-accession

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