Cylinder Seal

CBS Register: Seal cyl. Black serpentine. Bismaya.

PBS XIV: The seated goddess and the winged gate over the crouched bull. In one hand she holds a cord reaching to the bull’s horn. She has a fillet about her hair, tied in a loop behind, a long robe, and is seated on a cubic throne. There is no assistant, no crescent, no bars to the gate. The essential features of the scene are the closed gate over the crouched bull, a captive at the hands of the seated female deity. Was not the bullman Eabani tamed at the hands of the joy maid of Uruk, the city of many enclosures? Cyl. seal. Black diorite, 18 x 8 ½ mm Bismaya.