Lot 169
  • 169

Seven Mesopotamian Antiquities , circa late 3rd Millennium B.C./8th Century B.C.

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Description

  • Seven Mesopotamian Antiquities
  • Heights 1 1/8 to 6 in. 2.9 to 15.2 cm.
comprising five Old Babylonian terracotta relief plaques, one with a horned god with bull's ears, one with a nude goddess standing with her hands clasped, one with a horned goddess wearing a voluminous mantle, one with a warrior-hero about to smite a begging enemy with a sickle, and one with an erotic scene showing a woman drinking from a vessel with a straw, 2nd millennium B.C., an Akkadian white marble cylinder seal carved with a hero fighting a water buffalo, and a bullman in contest with a lion and two columns of inscription, late 3rd Millennium B.C., and a neo-Assyrian chalcedony seal carved with an archer hunting a griffin, a crescent in the field, circa 8th Century B.C.

Provenance

Israel Rosen, Tel-Aviv, 1967, for the seals
the plaques acquired in East Jerusalem in 1967

Catalogue Note

Cf. R. Opificius, Das altbabylonische Terrakottarelief, Berlin, 1961, no. 167, pl. 2, for the third, nos. 480-481, pl. 12, for the fourth, and no. 612, pl. 20, for the fifth.