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Black Stone Cylinder Seal with Spiders

Circa 1400-800 BC

Description: Cylinder seal carved with three spiders formed of circular drill marks for heads and bodies and linear cuts creating the legs. One schematic “pig-tail girl” motif consisting of three drill marks in a curved row. Made from a dark black finely grained stone.

Height: 0.6 in. (1.5 cm)
Diameter: 0.5 in. (1.3 cm)

Condition: Intact with sharply impressed design.

Provenance: Spiders were a popular Jemdet-Nasr Period motif frequently depicted on seals along with the so-called “pig-tail girls”. Scholars speculate this odd combination is an allusion to the contrast between life and death.

Reference: See Symbols of Prehistoric Mesopotamia By beatrice Ann Goff (Yale University 1963), #355 and #617 for the type. FOT Inv #202.0064

Price: $ 475

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