Cylinder Seal

B14320

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B14320
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Archaeology Area jewel jar 2, near grave 53, hill X
Section Near Eastern
Materials Hematite
Description

CBS Register: Seal cyl. hematite.

PBS XIV: A bearded god – or divine attendant – stands up with hand extended. He has a horned mitre, his hair tied in a swallow tail and a fringed shawl. The emblems in front are the seated dog of Gula with a crooked Martu stick on his head, the caduceus of Ninib or Ishtar, the lightning fork of Adad on a passing humped bull, a long Marduk spear between two smaller ones. Cyl. seal. Hematite, 23 x 10 mm. Nippur, Shat-en-Nil, 1894, jewel jar of grave 53.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur III, 1896
Other Number PBS XIV: 491 - Other Number | P269288 - CDLI Number

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