Object Number | B5074 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Iraq |
Period | Babylonian |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Jasper |
Description | CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder, mottled jasper PBS XIV: A tree of life, a simple stock on a bulging base supporting a winged disk among all sorts of animals. There are two crouched ibexes attacked by two winged dragons with lions’ tails, in the field above two animals with head turned back, a crouched gazelle, a doe or calf with one leg up and on either side of the tree an ampulla and a libra. Cyl. seal. Red mottled jasper, 23 x 11 mm. Bagdad, 1890. |
Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition Purchase, 1890 |
Other Number | PBS XIV: 601 - Other Number | P261266 - CDLI Number |
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