Cylinder Seal
B8970
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Tello
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | B8970 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Tello |
| Period | Babylonian Period |
| Date Made | 1850-1550 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Shell |
| Description | CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder, center of shell (recent sea shell) PBS XIV: Archaic scene in two registers. In the upper register, twelve nude figures with bird like heads, march in single file toward a gate after the style of the warriors on the archaic base from Tello. In the lower register, there are several figures of men and animals on either side of a gate or a net, fastened by ropes (?). Cyl. seal. Shell, 34 ½ x 22 mm. A piece is broken off. Shatra, 1890. |
| Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition II, 1890 |
| Other Number | PBS XIV: 197 - Other Number | P263787 - CDLI Number |
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