Cylinder Seal

B1083

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B1083
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Section Near Eastern
Materials Hematite
Description

CBS Register: seal cylinder, hematite

PBS XIV: The worshipping of a seated goddess holding a palm. he has a plain robe and a cubic seat roughly cut, and two fishes emblem of a water god on either side. A nude Zirbanit with head in profile and a few lines across her hips, stands with hands clasped to her breast. A god in turban and short tunic steps forth like Martu, but without any club in hand Between them there is a spear of Marduk below the crescent and sunk disk.

Concave cyl. seal. Hematite, 28 x 9 1/2 mm.

Credit Line Purchased from Khabaza, Baghdad; subscription of R. F. Harper, 1889
Other Number PBS XIV: 433 - Other Number

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