Cylinder Seal

B5026

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B5026
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Period Babylonian
Section Near Eastern
Materials Soapstone
Description

CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder, soapstone

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a seated goddess, with hand extended below the crescent. She has a horned mitre, her hair tied in a loop behind, a flounced robe, a cubic seat. There is a palm tree behind her, and in front an altar table on a columnar support. A divine attendant dressed like her, but with a plaited robe covering one shoulder, leads by the hand the bareheaded worshiper in a fringed shawl. Cyl. seal. Serpentine, 24 x 11 mm.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition Purchase, 1890
Other Number PBS XIV: 225 - Other Number | P261218 - CDLI Number

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