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Standing composite figure with human legs and body, but a bird's wings and head, placed between a large recumbent horned quadruped with long neck and a smaller horned quadruped with short neck; scorpion, hand, fish and star fillers. The whole of the design in enclosed within upper and lower rules. This is a good example of the Mitanni "Elaborate Style", from anywhere between north-western Iran and the eastern Mediterranean. As is normal for such Mitanni seals, the cutting was done entirely with three semi-mechanical tools: the drill, the tubular drill and the cutting wheel. 
Comes with translation and dating by Professor W.G. Lambert of the Birmingham University, England.

Size: 2.4 cm L - 15/16 inch
Material: Brown Hematite
Culture: Mitanni, c. 1500-1250 B.C. 
Condition: A gash on the standing figure, otherwise intact.


Provenance: UK private collection, acquired 1980-1983. 
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Mitanni, c. 1500-1250 B.C.

Mitanni Hematite Cylinder Seal with Winged Birds

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