Object Number | B8918 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
Period | Babylonian |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Limestone |
Description | CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder. Limestone. PBS XIV: two Sumerians in a hand to hand contest. they have bird like heads and short skirts, and one seems to wear a horned headdress. a third similar figure pursuses a lion attacking an ibex. There is a second ibex, a small lion - or dog - and a very unusual crescent between the two scenes. Cyl. seal. green jade like stone, 24 x 18 mm. Nippur, 1891. |
Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition to Nippur II, 1890 |
Other Number | PBS XIV: 69 - Other Number | P263735 - CDLI Number |
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