Cylinder Seal

B1019

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B1019
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Section Near Eastern
Materials Serpentine
Description

CBS Register: seal cylinder, talcose serpentine, soft greenish gray.

PBS XIV: The worshiping of seated goddess with one hand extended below the crescent. She has a horned mitre, her hair tied in a loop, a flounced robe, a cubic seat with a cross bar resting on a low dais. Behind her a scorpion, a goose, a squat monkey, are perhaps emblems of Ishhar, Bau, Aa (?). A diving attendant in plaited shawl leads by the hand a bareheaded worshiper in a fringed shawl. Both adore with the free hand up. Concave cyl. seal. Serpentine, 24 x 13 1/2 mm.

Credit Line Purchased from Khabaza, Baghdad; subscription of R. F. Harper, 1889
Other Number PBS XIV: 233 - Other Number

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