Cylinder Seal

B1080

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B1080
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Section Near Eastern
Materials Hematite
Description

CBS Register: seal cylinder, hematite

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a seated goddess holding a palm (?). She has a horned mitre roughly cut with the wheel, a flounced robe (?), a cubic seat with cross bars. A divine attendant (?) with horned mitre (?) and plaited robe brings a kid. There is a star above. A nude Zirbanit with head in profile stands with hands clasped to her breast. A divine attendant with horned mitre and flounced robe adores with one hand up. Convex cyl. seal. Hematite, 22 1/2 x 8 mm.

Credit Line Purchased from Khabaza, Baghdad; subscription of R. F. Harper, 1889
Other Number PBS XIV: 432 - Other Number

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