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Hittite Seal with an Animal

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Stamp seal with circular seal plate and a tapered handle that terminates in a horizontally drilled, hammer-shaped knob. On the seal surface there is a plant (the "Tree of Life" motif) flanked by a crouching lion and a rabbit. The scene is framed by a single line on the edge of the sealing surface.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Hans Silvius von Aulock Istanbul; sold [through Christie's New York June 13 2000 no.522] to Harvard University Art Museums. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Leslie Cheek Jr. and Purchase through the generosity of Sol Rabin and the Marian H. Phinney Fund
Title: Hittite Seal with an Animal
Description:
Stamp seal with circular seal plate and a tapered handle that terminates in a horizontally drilled, hammer-shaped knob.
On the seal surface there is a plant (the "Tree of Life" motif) flanked by a crouching lion and a rabbit.
The scene is framed by a single line on the edge of the sealing surface.

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