Cylinder Seal

B1015

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B1015
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Section Near Eastern
Materials Serpentine
Description

CBS Register: seal cylinder, serpentine.

PBS XIV: The worshiping of seated goddess, hand extended below the crescent. She has a horned mitre, her hair tied in a loop, a flounced robe, a cubic seat resting on a low dais. The divine attendant, dressed like her but with a plaited robe covereing one shoulder, leads by the hand the shaven and shorn worshiper in fringed shawl. Both adore with their free hand up.

“Gimil-tu//son of Mana” Concave cyl. seal. Green jade like stone, 21 x 12 mm

Credit Line Purchased from Khabaza, Baghdad; subscription of R. F. Harper, 1889
Other Number PBS XIV: 245 - Other Number

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