Cylinder Seal

B14470

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B14470
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Period Pre-Sargonic
Section Near Eastern
Materials Shell
Description

PBS XIV: A nude hunter with bird like head in profile and wild locks, protects with outstretched arms a deer and an ibex from the attack of two lions. On the reverse there is a scorpion below two lines. Cyl. seal. Shell, 17 1/2 x 11 1/2 mm.

Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number PBS XIV: 110 - Other Number | 1676 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-1676 - Old Museum Number | P269436 - CDLI Number

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