Cylinder Seal

B14454

Location: On Display in the Preserving Assyria

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B14454
Current Location Preserving Assyria - On Display
Provenience Iraq
Period Assyrian
Section Near Eastern
Materials Diorite
Description

PBS XIV: The Assyrian kneeling bowman shooting the wild bull. He has a beard, long hair a short fringed tunic girded about, a quiver and a sword hung across his shoulders. The bull has fallen on his knees, smitten to death. The sign between them formed of two cross nails, designs the bowman as a god: ilu, Bel-Marduk, Ninib or Ashur. There are a crescent and a star above.

Convex cyl. seal. Black diorite, 26 x 11 ½ mm. MS Coll

Length 2.7 cm
Outside Diameter 1.2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number PBS XIV: 576 - Other Number | 1409 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-1409 - Old Museum Number | P269420 - CDLI Number

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