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Cylinder seal with knob; Ivriz, god of thunderstorms   
approaches the Great Goddess who lifts her veil. A     
deity surrounded by flames (the sun-god) escapes from  
a mountain in which he was imprisoned. 15th            
Haematite, H: 4,5 cm             AO 20138
#08021531

Cylinder seal with knob; Ivriz, god of thunderstorms approaches the Great God...

Cylinder seal and imprint, Paleo-Babylonian period.    
Offering scene.                                        
Haematite, H: 2,,4 cm                                  
AO 22314
#08021532

Cylinder seal and imprint, Paleo-Babylonian period. Offering scene....

Cylinder seal and imrpint, Syro-Hittite, 12th BCE.     
Deity standing on a bull facing another deity on a     
horse-like animal. From Northern Syria.                
Haematite,                                             
AO 558
#08021533

Cylinder seal and imrpint, Syro-Hittite, 12th BCE. Deity standing on a bull...

Cylinder seal and imprint, period of the Assyrian      
merchant settlements in Cappadocia, 19th-18th BCE      
Sacrifice of a kid to Shamash the sun-god,identified   
by the mountain from wich he escapes and the saw-like  
dagger. Haematite, H: 2,5 cm         MNB 1171
#08021534

Cylinder seal and imprint, period of the Assyrian merchant settlements in...

Cylinder seal and imprint, Kassite period,16th-12th BCE
Offering scene.                                        
Rose Agate, H: 3,3 cm                                  
AO 22331
#08021535

Cylinder seal and imprint, Kassite period,16th-12th BCE Offering scene....

Cylinder seal and imprint, Kassite period,16th-12th BCE
Horse-sacrifice to a deity.                            
Rose Agate                                             
AO
#08021536

Cylinder seal and imprint, Kassite period,16th-12th BCE Horse-sacrifice to a dei...

Cylinder seal and imprint, Paleo-Babylonian period.    
Deity with the vase overflowing with the water of life;
two Gilgamesh (?), a warrior goddess.                  
Jasper, H: 3 cm                                        
AO 11566
#08021537

Cylinder seal and imprint, Paleo-Babylonian period. Deity with the vase over...

Cylinder seal and imprint, period of the Assyrian      
merchant settlements in Cappadocia, 19th-18th BCE.     
Two worshippers, followed by a God on his iconographic 
animal, before a gooddess on a throne.                 
Haematite, H: 2, 6 cm                AO 7294
#08021538

Cylinder seal and imprint, period of the Assyrian merchant settlements in...

Cylinder seal and imprint, period of the Assyrian      
merchant settlements in Cappadocia, end 19th-18th BCE. 
Offerings brought to a seated deity; a bull-idol.      
Haematite, H: 1,7 cm                                   
AO 4775
#08021539

Cylinder seal and imprint, period of the Assyrian merchant settlements in...

Cylinder seal and imprint, Hittite, from North Syria.  
God of war or king;symbols of vegetation and fertility,
the palm-branch and ears of corn.                      
Steatite, H: 4,3 cm                                    
AO 11234
#08021540

Cylinder seal and imprint, Hittite, from North Syria. God of war or king;symbo...

Cylinder seal and imprint, Akkadian, 2340-2150 BCE.    
A kneeling king (vanquished?) offers to a deity.       
Serpentine, H:2,5 cm                                   
AO 22323
#08021541

Cylinder seal and imprint, Akkadian, 2340-2150 BCE. A kneeling king (vanquis...

Cylinder seal and imprint, Assyrian.                   
Two figures around an altar; above the altar a solar   
disk with wings; a god on a bull.                      
Agate, H: 3 cm                                         
AO 22347
#08021542

Cylinder seal and imprint, Assyrian. Two figures around an al...