Cylinder Seal

B14319

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B14319
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Archaeology Area in loose earth from hill X
Section Near Eastern
Materials Hematite
Description

CBS Register: Seal cyl. hematite.

PBS XIV: The worshiping of Martu by the divine attendant as above (see PBS XIV: 362). Between them a nude Zirbanit in front face stands up with her hands to her breasts. There are a sun disk with cross and rays and a crescent above.

Other emblems on the reverse are two crooked sticks of Martu on the back of a crouched antelope or deer, a star, a squat monkey, a large crooked stick. Concave cyl. seal. Hematite, 23 ½ x 12 mm. Nippur, 1895, hill X.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur III, 1896
Other Number PBS XIV: 385 - Other Number | P269287 - CDLI Number

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