Cylinder Seal

CBS Register: seal cylinder, serpentine, greenish mottled, forgery. Modern.

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a seated bearded god, one hand extended below the crescent and a sun disk, while holding a scepter with the other. He has a mitre with four pairs of horns, his hair tied in a loop, a flounced robe, a cubic seat resting on a dais. In front of him there is a kneeling nude Gilgamesh in front face pressing to his breast a spouting vase. There is moreover a second spouting vase on a stand, and an empty stand. The god is probably Ea, but the effaced inscription gives no clue to his name. THe divine assistant, with the same mitre, hair and robe, leads by the hand the shaven and shorn worshiper in a fringed shawl. Both adore with their free hand up. In the rear two diving assistants do the same with both hands. They have the horned mitre and hair tied in a loop but the first a flounced, the second only a plaited robe.

The thick stone ridges ridges at both ends of the cylinder, in imitation of the copper plates used to fasten the handle, left a deep impression on many tablets of about Gudea time. Cyl. seal. Serpentine, 31 1/2 x 13 mm.