A Near Eastern Chalcedony Cylinder Seal, Old Babylonian Period, ca. 2000 - 1600 BCE kenya a puck on the press

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Reinforced four-angle design

Scoop Neck

Softly carved from opaque white chalcedony

Dimensions: Diameter: 1 cm (1/2 inch)Provenance: Sevigné collection

A Near Eastern Chalcedony Cylinder Seal, Old Babylonian Period, ca. 2000 - 1600 BCE kenya a puck on the pressSoftly carved from opaque white chalcedony, the incised image of a worshiper with a scepter standing before a deity in Nimbus, with a long scepter behind, a drill hole through the length of the seal for suspension. Cylinder seals were important instruments in the Ancient Near East and were used throughout Mesopotamia from the beginning of the third millennium to the fifth century BCE. Cylinder seals were made from various minerals with different