Cylinder Seal

B9097

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B9097
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Period Babylonian
Section Near Eastern
Materials Limestone
Description

CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder, limestone, pieces cut off

PBS XIV: A nude hunter with head in profile, a loin cloth, a beard, his hair bound or covered by a cap, seizes a bull by the horn and tail. A second nude hunter, but without loin cloth, attacks an ibex. A third group partly destroyed represented the fight of Eabani with the lion. There is a curious inscription or a rare name.

“La-ga-ma-al”

Cyl. seal. Green jade like stone, 24 ½ x 16 mm.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur II, 1890
Other Number PBS XIV: 138 - Other Number | P264523 - CDLI Number

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