Cylinder Seal

B14479

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B14479
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Period Assyrian
Section Near Eastern
Materials Diorite
Description

PBS XIV: The worshiping of Adad standing on a crouched bull. He has a flounced robe. Behind him a servant in short loin cloth brings a pail and a libation vase (?). The two worshipers wear the Assyrian fringed shawl. The second, probably an attendant, carries spear and bow and has a long stola across his shoulders.

Broken cyl. seal. Basalt, 26 x 14 ½ mm. MS Coll.

Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number PBS XIV: 571 - Other Number | 1645 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-1645 - Old Museum Number | P269445 - CDLI Number

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