— Babylonian seals —Figure 7. 18 Worshipper with fan before seated figure with cup; filling motifs. Inscribed ‘It is the
god who (gives) life; it is the king who saves’. Faience. 5. 02 × 1. 7. (Collon 1987 , no. 291 ).
Figure 7. 19 Scene based on Egyptian depictions of Levantines; the vessels are Mycenaean stirrup
jars. Inscribed in crude Egyptian hieroglyphs ‘Great Prince of Sangar, Kurigalzu’, presumably
Kurigalzu II ( 1332 – 1308 BC); Sangar was an Egyptian name for Babylonia. Carnelian. Dimen-
sions not given. Excavated at Metsamor in Georgia. Drawing (not to scale) by D. Collon after the
photograph in Brentjes 1991.