Cylinder Seal

B1035

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B1035
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Section Near Eastern
Materials Lapis Lazuli
Description

CBS Register: seal cylinder, lapis lazuli

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a god like Shamash, holding a scepter - or spear (?), his bare leg lifted on a seated lion. HE has a horned mitre, his hair tied in a swallow tail, a beard, a plaited shawl girded about and opening in front. A small nude bareheaded and kneeling worshiper bring s a kid as an offering. The usual diving attendant adores with both hands up. There is a fish behind the god.

A second bearded god holds a crooked stick of Martu. He has a horned mitre, his hair hanging and a flounced robe. Convex cyl. seal. Lapis lazuli, 22 x 7 1/2 mm.

Credit Line Purchased from Khabaza, Baghdad; subscription of R. F. Harper, 1889
Other Number PBS XIV: 406 - Other Number

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