Cylinder Seal

B5063

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B5063
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Period Babylonian
Section Near Eastern
Materials Diorite
Description

CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder, diorite

PBS XIV: Two nude hunters with head in profile, long beard and hair, and one perhaps a low turban, have locked hands. Two lifted hands are armed with a knife (?). Two hands are down joined over a spear. They stand between two rampant ibexes, one of which is attacked by a lion. On the reverse there is a scorpion below a name in a cartouche. “I-li-a-hi” Cyl. seal. Serpentine, 30 x 16 mm

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition Purchase, 1890
Other Number PBS XIV: 131 - Other Number | P261255 - CDLI Number

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