Cylinder seal featuring a turbaned figure wearing a fringed shawl, holding a weapon in his left hand. Opposite him, a figure wearing a truncated cone-shaped hat, raising his right arm. Behind the first figure, a goddess intercedes. Hematite. Sumerian art, Paleo-Babylonian period (1763 - 1595 B.C.). Height: 2 cm Provenance : From a copy of the collectors' notes, acquired from Hindamian in 1952. Publication: DANMAVILLE, Jenny, "La Collection Thierry", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 1965, vol. 59, p. 59, reproduced fig. 18. Indicated as "purchased from a Paris antique dealer as coming from Baghdad". Collection Nicole et Jean-Michel Thierry - lots 1 to 141.