Cast

Cylinder Seal

B14389

From: Israel | Gezer

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B14389
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Israel | Gezer
Section Near Eastern
Materials Plaster
Description

CBS Register: cast of a seal cylinder. (green serpentine)

PBS XIV: A nude hunter with head in profile, beard, locks of hair and a flat cap, attacks a bull. Gilgamesh in front face, with locks of hair, perhaps bound by a fillet, a beard, a belt, and a club in hand, fights with a lion. Eabani in front face, a large dagger in hand, attacks a second lion. On the reverse below the cartouche there are a crescent and a half raised bull leaping over a bush.

I-lum-ba-ni//Ur-pa

Cast of a cyl. seal. Probably diorite, 36 x 24 mm. Gezer, Palestine, 1912 (?)

Credit Line Purchased from H. Clark, 1913
Other Number PBS XIV: 134 - Other Number | P269357 - CDLI Number

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