Cylinder Seal

B8918

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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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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