Cylinder Seal

B5074

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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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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