Pink chalcedony cylinder seal with black veins A rampant lion and a winged rearing stallion confront each other Cultures Assyrian Mesopotamia iraq date1250BC

Description Grey chalcedony cylinder seal with a white-blue band antithetical group with a four-winged hero facing right between two rearing winged bulls (which he grasps the forelegs of) which look back over their shoulders towards a god (Ashur) Mesopotamia iraq Assyrian civilization
Description Grey chalcedony cylinder seal with a white-blue band antithetical group with a four-winged hero facing right between two rearing winged bulls (which he grasps the forelegs of) which look back over their shoulders towards a god (Ashur) Mesopotamia iraq Assyrian civilization

Archer in assault on lion-griffin menacing tree that has winged sun disk above it; before archer, rhomb; behind him, table — Cross-shaped object in sky. Period: Neo-Assyrian period
Mesopotamia iraq

Grey-brown chalcedony cylinder seal (white / cream patination was probably acquired during burial); antithetical group consisting of a four-winged hero in the centre, facing right, flanked by ostriches which he grasps by the neck; beneath each ostrich are two ostrich chicks; in the upper field above the ostrich on the left, a smaller ostrich pursues a gazelle, while above the ostrich on the right is an eight-pointed, globe-centred star set in a crescent. The hero wears an oval-topped helmet with two pairs of horns
Cultures Babylonian – Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia iraq

cylinder seal Shamshi-Adad I
1810BC-1776BC ancient Assyrian Mesopotamia iraq
cylinder seal a standing goddess in square-topped head-dress and flounced robe stands with hands clasped before a bearded god
(possibly Tishpak god of Eshnunna) in a flounced robe, whose horned head-dress has a rounded top, who holds the wedge and ring and who is seated on an ornamental throne on a dais and rests his feet on a mushhushshu dragon The robed king in a tall oval head-dress carrying an animal offering and raising one hand, faces a bearded god (possibly the sun-god Shamash) who wears a flounced robe, holds a toothed ring and stands on two addorsed human-headed bulls. In the field, alongside the scattered signs of the inscription
are a hump-backed bull, turned to the left, behind which is the forked lightning symbol; a star-disc and crescent and a small nude figure in the royal posture, facing right; a small priest with pail and cup, facing left, and a small nude goddess. There is a base-line beneath the goddess; inscription interspersed slightly chipped round edges

Assyrian Cylinder Seals
Lion attacking fallen mouflon – Star in sky – tree – Mesopotamia iraq 1300 BCE

Cylinder seal; chalcedony; black to very dark blue / green; a metal, copper-alloy pin is preserved in the perforation; two riders follow each other towards the right; one, riding a leaping horse, below which is a seated dog facing right, prepares to throw a spear, while the other (a camel-driver?)
culture Late Babylonian civilization, Assyrian civilization
Production place:
Mesopotamia Iraq
6thC BC-5thC BC

Streaked pale pink and orange with darker veining cornelian cylinder seal; the goddess Gula is seated on a high-backed chair on the back of her dog, facing right, in her raised right hand she holds an object which may be a scapel but owing to a fault in the stone its shape has had to be altered; in her left hand she holds a beaded ring. She wears a tall, cylindrical, star-topped, horned head-dress, a necklace and a wide-belted, vertically-striated, tiered robe. Behind and above her chair are four stars, a crescent and a figure (possibly the god La-tarak or Nergal) who is wearing a roaring’s lion’s head and skin over a diagonally cross-hatched, fringed robe; he has one hand raised to his leonine lower jaw and has a whip or scourge (or broom?) hanging from his right wrist. Facing Gula is a bearded worshipper, who is pointing with his right hand and extends his left; he has shoulder-length hair and wears a fringed robe over which is draped and wrapped a fringed shawl. In the upper field, in front of the worshipper, are the Pleiades, and behind him is a win

cylinder seal

Grey-blue chalcedony cylinder seal; two figures sit on camp stools facing each other and raising shallow cups, on either side of a cross-legged table which has bull’s legs; on the table lies a fish and above a star and a crescent; behind the figure on the right stands an attendant with a fly-whisk, and behind the attendant are a winged disc, the Pleiades and a rhomb. All three figures have identical shoulder-length hairstyles and wear wide-belted robes with a fringe round the hem, lines across the chest and double lines across the skirt; the attendant also has lines indicating pleating at the back of his robe. The figure on the left is bearded; the other two are clean-shaven, but the attendant wears a sword and is therefore male.
Findspot: Babylon (Iraq) Late Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian
attendant, sun/moon, planet/constellation, mammal, insect, fish,
British museum