Cylinder seal featuring a bearded serpent god wearing a horned tiara, holding a horn-shaped vase in his left hand.
He stands opposite a goddess dressed in a fringed cloak, seated on a stool, holding in her right hand a cup from which a liquid flows. Opposite the god, a bearded man in a fringed cloak stands. Behind the seated goddess, another woman stands. Eight-pointed stars in the background and tree behind the serpent god. 
Diorite.
Sumerian art, Akkad (2334 - 2154 B.C.).
Height: 3.4 cm 

Provenance : 
Mes Ader et Vinchon sale, Hôtel Drouot, May 20-22, 1959, lot 221.

Publication: 
DANMAVILLE, Jenny, "La Collection Thierry", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 1965, vol. 59, pp. 58-59, reproduced fig. 17.

Collection Nicole et Jean-Michel Thierry - lots 1 to 141.
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Cylinder seal featuring a bearded serpent god wearing a horned tiara, holding a horn-shaped vase in his left hand. He stands opposite a goddess dressed in a fringed cloak, seated on a stool, holding in her right hand a cup from which a liquid flows. Opposite the god, a bearded man in a fringed cloak stands. Behind the seated goddess, another woman stands. Eight-pointed stars in the background and tree behind the serpent god. Diorite. Sumerian art, Akkad (2334 - 2154 B.C.). Height: 3.4 cm Provenance : Mes Ader et Vinchon sale, Hôtel Drouot, May 20-22, 1959, lot 221. Publication: DANMAVILLE, Jenny, "La Collection Thierry", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 1965, vol. 59, pp. 58-59, reproduced fig. 17. Collection Nicole et Jean-Michel Thierry - lots 1 to 141.

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€6,500
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Cylinder seal featuring a bearded serpent god wearing a horned tiara, holding a horn-shaped vase in his left hand. He stands opposite a goddess dressed in a fringed cloak, seated on a stool, holding in her right hand a cup from which a liquid flows. Opposite the god, a bearded man in a fringed cloak stands. Behind the seated goddess, another woman stands. Eight-pointed stars in the background and tree behind the serpent god. Diorite. Sumerian art, Akkad (2334 - 2154 B.C.). Height: 3.4 cm Provenance : Mes Ader et Vinchon sale, Hôtel Drouot, May 20-22, 1959, lot 221. Publication: DANMAVILLE, Jenny, "La Collection Thierry", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 1965, vol. 59, pp. 58-59, reproduced fig. 17. Collection Nicole et Jean-Michel Thierry - lots 1 to 141.
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