| Object Number | B1834 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq |
| Period | Babylonian |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Carnelian |
| Description | CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder in carnelian PBS XIV: The Assyrian hero Bel-Marduk holds by the leg two rampant hairy bisons. He has the usual heavy hair tied about, beard and open shawl with three zones of fringes. The reverse has a genius clothed in a fish skin carrying a cone fruit and a pail. The cone fruit seems to have replaced the older Babylonian libation vase. THe genius has a beard and a short tunic under his fish coat. Convex cyl. seal. Carnelian, 25 x 14 mm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Khabaza, Baghdad; subscription of R. F. Harper, 1889 |
| Other Number | PBS XIV: 607 - Other Number |
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