Sealing

Uninscribed, but with cylinder seal impression, 2.0 x 3.5 cm; showing figure seated on a plain stool facing 1. and clad in long robe and turban, robe marked by horizontal striations; broken in half, mended; due to break, face missing, and no trace of beard; outstretched hand may hold cup, represented by 2 drill holes; above is a group of 7 globes, but a further one may have been destroyed, which would thus have formed a rosette common on seals of the latter part of Firsy Dynasty of Babylon. The seven globes thought to represent the Pleiades do not appear on seals of this type. Below the cup an obscure emblem which may be a bird. Beyond are two "Gilgamesh" figure grasping somebody or something between them, perhaps a lion (N.B. The seal has been executed so that one figure appears on the far side of the impression, beyond the standard.) Behind the seated figure a standard on a staff with __________________ (?). It is surrmounted by a disc? surrounded by 9 globes. face of disc broken, but this may be a form of the Sun Standard. Seal probably belongs to end of First Dynasty of Babylon, as it is in the drill hole style discussed by Frankfort.