Stamp Seal

CBS Register: cone shaped seal, fragment, in Chalcedony, Assyrian style

PBS XIV: The Babylonian worshiper with a fillet, long hair and beard, and fringed robe girded about adores with both hands the emblems of Marduk and Nabu, the spear and nail, resting on a horned wingless dragon of Marduk, crouching on a base altar below the crescent. Behind the altar there is a candlestick, the emblem of Nusku, with one or two lamps engraved with minute details. It was probably a copper stand, with a columnar shaft resting on three legs. The shaft is a suit of globular pieces supporting two oils lamps with a projecting burner and a round handle. The lower lamp is perhaps simply a copper disk fitted on the shaft below the real lamp to receive the dripping burning oil. There is a small rhomb behind the worshiper.

Cone seal with convex face. Chalcedony, 21 x 17