Inscribed cylinder seal featuring a turbaned figure. - Lot 15

Inscribed cylinder seal featuring a turbaned figure. He appears to be holding a weapon. Opposite him, an interceding goddess wearing a horned tiara and a ruffled dress. Between the figures, a crescent and a monkey. Inscribed: Ris-(Ada) / son of Ahutab / servant of Adad. Sumerian art, Paleo-Babylonian period (1763 - 1595 B.C.). Hematite. Accident at bottom of cylinder. Height: 2 cm Provenance : From a copy of the collectors' notes, acquired from Koutoulakis in Paris. Publication: DANMAVILLE, Jenny, "La Collection Thierry", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 1963, vol. 57, pp. 177-178, reproduced fig. 4. Indicated as "purchased from a Paris antique dealer as coming from Baghdad". Collection Nicole et Jean-Michel Thierry - lots 1 to 141.