Stamp Seal

B8940

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B8940
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Period Neo-Babylonian
Section Near Eastern
Materials Chalcedony
Description

CBS Register: Babylonian seal, cone shaped, excellent preservation, chalcedony

PBS XIV: The Babylonian worshiper as above adoring the emblems of Marduk and Nabu on a base below a star. A line leads from the hands of the worshiper to an X shape on the foremost part of the altar: an emblem on the head of the dragon (?)

Octagonal cone seal with convex face. Chalcedony, 21 x 13 mm.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900
Other Number PBS XIV: 696 - Other Number | P263757 - CDLI Number

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