Bulla

CBS14261

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Babylonian

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Object Number CBS14261
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Section Babylonian
Materials Clay
Description

PBS XIV: Marduk stands up, scimitar in one hand, the other hand pressed to his breast. He has a turban, a long beard, his hair tied behind, a fringed shawl covering one shoulder. There is a rhomb opposed to the sun cross symbols of heaven and earth. Above the inscription a plant of life is guarded by two birds with long folded wings and heads turned back.

“Marduk//chief of heaven and earth//listens unto//his worshiper.”

Seal impress. on a fragment of black clay bulla with marks of strings on the back. Nippur.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900
Other Number P269228 - CDLI Number | PBS XIV: 548 - Other Number | B14261 - Old Museum Number | CBS 14261 - Other Number

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