Cesnola, Luigi Palma di [Hrsg.]: A descriptive atlas of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Band 3) (New York, 1903)

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Plate CXX.

i. Cypriote Seal. Black serpentine. Length ls/ie inch. Diameter 3/6 inch. From
Curium.

Erect man, with raised arms, facing a.walking bull, with head toward top, and a dog (?),
with sun and crescent. Indistinct object behind man. Cesnola, Cyprus, page 387; Plate
XXXII, 17.

2. Cypriote Seal. Serpentine. Length 13/ig inch. Diameter 1/% inch, flush. From
Curium.

Erect man wearing a short garment; arms bent, extended to grasp erect, horned goat on
right, and erect dog (?) on left. Opposed, a sacred tree with four curved branches below, a globe
at the top and canopied by a halo of radiating lines, the so-called "rayed tree of Cyprus"; on
right of same is a bull's head; on left a bull's head, a pomegranate (?), an ibex's head and a goose's
head.

3. Cypriote Seal. Serpentine. Length y% inch. Diameter Vw inch. From Curium.

Two erect human figures with an indistinct object, apparently an ibex, between them, stand-
ing erect. Behind one is a bull's head, with a goose's head and neck (?) beneath same; behind
the other a small sun disk and two goats.

4. Cypriote Seal. Hematite. Length \l/% inch. Diameter 7/i6 inch. From Curium.
Animal shapes: below a horned bull and an antelope, both recumbent. Above former is a

bull's head and indistinct objects. Above the latter is another antelope with head and neck bent
far backward.

5. Cypriote Seal. Hematite? Length 15/i6 inch. Diameter 3/g inch. From Curium.
At right an erect figure with long garments and a head-dress ribbed like a ram's horn,

which it somewhat resembles in shape. Opposed is a sun disk with rays, each ending in a ball.
Flanking same are two antelopes, one with head turned backward. Horns of a third antelope are