Cylinder Seal

B14505

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B14505
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Period Pre-Ur
Section Near Eastern
Materials Alabaster
Description

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a goddess seated with hand extended below a flat crescent. There is a small altar table in front of her, in form of a tray on a columnar support with a tapering base. The goddess has her hair bound by a fillet and tied in a loop behind, a flounced robe, a cubic seat. She is approached by an attendant dressed in the same manner, who leads by the hand a worshiper in fringed shawl.

Concave cyl. seal. Alabaster, 23 ½ x 12 mm. MS Coll.

Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number PBS XIV: 204 - Other Number | 1678 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-1678 - Old Museum Number | P269471 - CDLI Number

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