Stamp Seal

B14524

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B14524
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Period Neo-Babylonian
Section Near Eastern
Materials Chalcedony
Description

PBS XIV: The Babylonian worshiper as above, with a fillet about his head, adores the spear and twin sticks, emblems of Marduk and Nabu, resting on the back of Marduk’s dragon crouched on a low base. The dragon has a horned crown, a serpent tail and serpent scales all over his body.

Octagonal cone seal with convex face. Chalcedony, 18 x 11 ½ mm. MS Coll.

Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number PBS XIV: 680 - Other Number | P269490 - CDLI Number

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