Cast
Cylinder Seal
B14399
From: Israel | Gezer
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | B14399 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Israel | Gezer |
Period | Archaic |
Date Made | 1500-1200 BCE |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Carnelian |
Description | CBS Register: Cast of a seal cyl. (Carnelian) PBS XIV: A palm like tree of life under the winged disk worshiped by a kneeling bearded man with both hands extended touching the sun and the tree. He has his hair bound by a fillet and a fringed robe girded about, with the end of his belt – or a sword (?) – passing behind. There are a crescent, an eight pointed star, a rampant ibex and two border lines. Cast of a convex seal cyl. Carnelian, 38 x 12 mm. Gezer, Palestine, 1912 (?) -Original held at the Smithsonian, A130103-0 |
Credit Line | Purchased from H. Clark, 1913 |
Other Number | PBS XIV: 596 - Other Number | P269366 - CDLI Number |
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