Sommerville 512 (1889): Carnelian. Intaglio Seal. Impression is Sommerville 513PBS XIV: A winged Eros riding whip in hand on the back of a galloping lion, which he heads with the left. The hind legs of the lion are treading on a three headed club, like a burning torch, while a bee or butterfly is hovering above and hurrying in hot pursuit. The whole scene is a marvel of minute engraving as well as a beautiful poem of love. “C. VOLCACI. C.F.” Ring shaped seal. Carnelian, 15 x 8 ½ mm. MS Coll.Intaglio
CBS Register: hemispherical seal. 4 lines of inscription. Agate with white layer. 1d BC. Kufic or Estrangelo?PBS XIV: Arabic inscription. Hemispherical seal. Agate with white layers, 22 x 22 mm. MS Coll.
Tan and mottled red in color; hole through center. Subject is a "bearded human figure seated in a small chair w/ a curving back...a griffin turns back his head...beyond the plant is a bull...".Incised
Sommerville #1444 (1889): Pale brownish chalcedony. Assyrian Seal. A priest before an altar on which burns a lamp. Also the crescent of a new moon.PBS XIV: The Babylonian worshiper as above adoring with both hands the emblems of Marduk and Nabu resting on the back of the horned dragon crouched on a base altar, below the crescent. Octagonal cone seal with convex face. Chalcedony, 17 ½ x 13 ½ mm. MS Coll.
From Marcus Publication: "Black marble. Tin suspension pin in perforation, splayed at bottom, with remnant of loop end at top. A standing bearded archer, facing left, wearing along fringed tunic with a broad belt, aims his bow at a stag. The stag breaks down on its forelegs. The body of the animal faces left while the head is turned in reverse towards the archer. He has large antlers. aligned horizontally with two tines projecting in front; his eye is framed by double lines at left and below. There are serrations along the back of his neck and a band of vertical serrations along his underbelly; a curved shoulder line is indicated . the archer carries at his waist a scabbard decorated with applied metal strips, and on his back a quiver, from with protrudes the tips of two arrows(?). The face of the archer is marked by horizontal striations; his feet are not indicated, being cropped by the lower border pattern. Behind the archer are two cuneiform-like wedges. Two additional wedges are between the legs of the stag; six globed are before his head. A lozenge is in the lower field between the opponents."Black soft stone, probably steatite; remains of bronze suspension loop and wire in perforation preserved, two ends of wire visible at bottom of cylinder. (They would have projected a little more than now and have been turned over. The present state suggests that they broke off recently, note color!). Scene: Archer aiming at Stag. The archer with head indicated by horizontal lines, wears a long robe with fringe at bottom, tied with a broad belt. He carries a sword and a quiver of which two arrows project over his shoulder. The stag has fallen on its forelegs and turns its head backwards. Four cuneiform wedges, seven small globes, crescent and lozenge in field. Design bordered above and below by pattern of four oblique lines in changing directions. The elaboration of the stag’s body and the motif of the animal as such may indicate an origin before the 8th c. Despite some slightly unusual features, the cylinder was made either by an Assyrian seal cutter or one intimately familiar with Assyrian iconography.
CBS Register: Seal cylinder, Agate. Neo Babylonian. PBS XIV: The four-winged Bel-Marduk holds two winged sphinxes. He has the usual round mitre, long beard and hair and open flounced robe. The sphinxes have a bearded human head, a lion's body and tail and the wings of an eagle. Their hind legs and tail form a rhomb below the crescent. There is a fish in the field. Roughly cut with wheel and burr. Convex cyl. seal. Blue chalcedony, 27 x 14 1/2 mm
sivler bronze stamp in form of flacon perched on ledge; round relief on the basae, a spread eagle in intaglio, on back in relief counter weight or rest of suspension ring. Incised feathers on wing. 1 original PMA impression
CBS Register: seal cylinder, white marble. Archaic.PBS XIV: antelopes crouched in an enclosure, near a gate, or light wood construction, with straight shafts and cross bars, characteristic of such scenes. They oppose to the wild hunting scenes, the ideas of enclosure, residence, house of the sheperd and tame cattle. two dots in the field may represent leaves--or a milk pail. Partly worked with the burr. Cyl. seal. grey marble 31 x 24 mm. Gezer, Palestine, 1912 (?)["Preserved with others in a box with this note attached: 'Found at Gezer, Palestine, 1912, Lambs. Jerusalem, October 27, 1913, H. Clark.' This origin seems very doubtful."]