Cylinder Seal

B8927

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B8927
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Period Babylonian
Section Near Eastern
Materials Limestone
Description

CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder, fragment, clay limestone

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a seated goddess with one hand extended. Behind her there is a scorpion and a club (?). She has a horned mitre, her hair tied in a loop behind, a flounced robe, a cubic seat with cross bars. A divine attendant leads by the hand the worshiper. Her plaited robe leaves both arms bare. The worshiper wears a fringed shawl. There is a crescent above. Broken cyl. seal. Limestone, 22 x 12 mm

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur II, 1890
Other Number PBS XIV: 219 - Other Number | P263744 - CDLI Number

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