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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
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.