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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