Cylinder Seal

CBS Register: seal cylinder, hematite

PBS XIV: The worshiping of Adad and Shala (?). Adad steps forth, the lightning fork in one hand, the other hand raised as if wielding the scimitar. He has a horned mitre (?) roughly worked with the burr, his hair tied behind, a beard, a plaited shawl girded about and opening in front, his bare leg lifted on a crouched bull A worshiper in turban and fringed shawl adores with one hand up, below the crescent.

A bearded god steps forth like Shamash, his bare leg lifted on a low mount. His weapon is the nine headed club. He has a conical hat with dots around, like the headdress of Ishtar on the rock relief of Anubanini king of the Lulubi, his hair tied behind, and a plaited shawl girded about and opening in front The tasseled ends of the girdle are carefully engraved. The next bearded figure in flounced robe, with hands clasped, wears a round mitre with one pair of horns, below which his hair is tied in heavy mass, after the style of Shamash on the Code stele - or the style of the Assyrian genius guarding the tree of life. Cyl. seal. Hematite, 21 x 7 1/2 mm