Cast

Cylinder Seal

B14399

From: Israel | Gezer

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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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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