Object Number | B8935 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
Period | Babylonian |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Soapstone |
Description | CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder, fragment, soapstone PBS XIV: The worshiping of a seated goddess in flounced robe. In front of her is a vase with a palm and two branches of dates hanging on either side. Her cubic seat is slightly hollowed, with a low curved back. Her feet rest on a footstool, raised like the seat on a dais or brick base, above the ground on which stands the worshiper. The latter, probably a divine attendant with horned mitre and plaited robe, lifts her two hands up. Broken cyl. seal. Diorite, 12 mm diameter |
Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition to Nippur II, 1890 |
Other Number | PBS XIV: 171 - Other Number | P263752 - CDLI Number |
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