Cylinder Seal

B14455

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B14455
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cypriot
Provenience Iraq
Section Near Eastern
Materials Diorite
Description

PBS XIV: Thanksgiving for a happy hunting. Three figures stand up with hands lifted on either side of their face. Two seem to hold by the hind legs an animal with long horns or ears. Both wear a short tunic braided or with zigzag pattern. The third has a long flounced robe. There are bow, arrows and spears in the field, two double border lines, and a circle at both ends round the suspension hole.

Cyl seal. Basalt, 25 x 9 mm. MS Coll.

Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number PBS XIV: 504 - Other Number | 1370 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-1370 - Old Museum Number | P269421 - CDLI Number

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