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Cylinder seal impression on pithos
Sh 720 Frag. from body of large storage jug, probably from mid-belly or on lower shoulder to judge by thickness and curvature. Clay, l. gray-brown at core to pinkish brown at surface which is well smoothed and almost lustrous; clay full of rather large multi-colored grits, ^the surface shows a few pores and air holes It is not possible to be certain whether the pithos was made by hand or wheel, though the latter seems more probable. Appearance and technique perfectly normal for LC pot pithos ware.
Impressed horizontally \> while the clay was still damp\ in a band around the entire (?) a frieze made with a large cylinder seal with a double register; the upper representation being identical with the lower, the two being staggered. Circumference of the seal was 13.2 cm., so that diameter must have been approximately 4.2 cm with a height of 5 centimeters. The possibility of more than two registers is not excluded by the sherd as it exists but is scarcely to be entertained on the ground that any other number of registers than two would give unwieldy proportions to the seal. The left side of the lower register seems rather more worn or less carefully carved than the right.
The representation consists of two bulls represented in side view, with horns locked. Their front feet are stationary- from the impact, for which heads and necks are lowered. The hind legs seem still to be in the act-for at least position-of running and tails are flung around over the shank of the left leg. Behind each bull is a man crouching on tiptoe, his hand raised, \^in fact, he is looking slightly upward and over the bull to the tail of which his head is very near. Arms are held down along the side. It may possibly have been intended to show the hands clasped behind the back.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain