Cylinder Seal

CBS Register: Seal cylinder. Shell. Archaic

PBS XIV: The worshipping of the seated Shamash with rays from his shoulders and his notched sword. He has a horned mitre, a beard, his hair tied in a loop, a flounced shawl, and a cubic seat with cross bars and a low back. He is approached by a divine attendant with the same mitre, hair and beard, but only a plaited shawl, from the waist down, and who, club or staff in hand, leads on the worshiper, bringing a kid as an offering. Behind the god a divine female attendant, with horned mitre, and tresses hanging on her back, flings open the morning gate (?). There are moreover a crescent and a scorpion. Concave cyl. seal. Shell, 35 x 21 mm. Nippur, temple area, below Ur-engur platform, January 19, 1896.