Neo-Assyrian or Late Babylonian faience cylinder seal

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A glazed composition cylinder seal decorated with a figure of a rearing serpent between a stylised tree and a winged motif.

Culture
Mesopotamia, Late Babylonian or Neo-Assyrian, early 1st Millennium BC

Size
2 x 0.9 cms

Condition
Surface wear as seen in the photographs

Provenance
Ex. deceased estate, Gloucestershire, UK; formerly in a British collection formed in the 1980’s.

For another faience seal with the same iconography, found in Nimrud and now in the British Museum, please see:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1987-0131-93

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