1.3.02026-06-07seal impression, sealRådata3400334objektStatens museer för världskultur - MedelhavsmuseetSMVK-MMFöremålhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3400334MM 1969:020Cylinder seal with vertical bore. Engraving in low relief depicting a four-winged genie figure facing right, torso placed frontally. The lower wings are shorter than the upper pair. The genie is wearing a belted mantle of Assyrian type, pulled back from the forward leg and thigh, and is in combat with antithetical, rampant horned quadrupeds with curved, elongated bodies, and raised, entwined tails, forming a ‘heart’ shape. Semi-translucent, pale orange/brown stone, probably quartz or jasper.MM 1969:020, Purchased from the estate of Reinhold Holtermann in 1969 (see comments)., H. Merrillees catalogue 1995, no.1. -One impression. R. Holtermann was a Swedish painter, who spent some years in Egypt during the 1950s. He collected Egyptian antiquities with some miscellanea, mainly in Egypt although exact provenances are not known., Some chips and cracks at each end., H. 3.3 cm, W. 1.4 cm, bore 0.35 cm., -Buchanan, 1966, 116-118, nos. 660-662. -Collon, F., 1982, nos. 118, 119, 121., Från R. Holtermanns samling.FörvärvadHoltermann, Reinhold Oscar ChristianBrukadNeo-Assyrian or Neo-Babylonian. c. 800-650 B.C.http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/3223046http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/html/3400334http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/xml/3400334http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/rdf/3400334