Cylinder Seal

B9096

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B9096
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Period Babylonian
Section Near Eastern
Materials Serpentine
Description

CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder. Serpentine.

PBS XIV: a hunter, with head in profile, short hair, beard and loin cloth, attacks a rampant bull. there is between them an axe of early making. in a second group, an ithyphallic Eabani attacks a lion with a short dagger. long tresses of hair are flowing over his shoulders. a sharp pointed club is planted in the field. a third group on the broken part of the cylinder probably represented Gilgamesh is front face. concave cyl. seal. black diorite, 36 x 21 mm.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur II, 1890
Other Number PBS XIV: 77 - Other Number | P264522 - CDLI Number

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