Plancheite Cylinder Seal

Plancheite Cylinder Seal

Description:

Plancheite cylinder seal; hole drilled through long axis; engraved with two inverted registers of designs separated by a row of dots; in one are two confronted naked kneeling men with a bird between them and another figure offering a gift to a female deity; in the other register are two human-headed confronted sphinxes facing a tree and two elongated quadrupeds (?) crossed diagonally.


Dimensions: Diameter: 0.95 centimetres; Length: 2.50 centimetres


Object Type: cylinder seal


Techniques: engraved; drilled

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1550 - 1400 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.41