Cylinder Seal

B1116

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B1116
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Section Near Eastern
Materials Diorite (uncertain)
Description

CBS Register: seal cylinder, probably diorite

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a seated goddess with hand extended below the crescent. She has a horned mitre, her hair tied in a loop, a flounced robe, a cubic seat with a cross bar. Behind her a bird, a scorpion, a lizard, may be divine emblems of Bau, Ishhara, Damkina (?). The divine attendant leads the worshiper by the hand. She has a plaited shawl covering one shoulder, and the bareheaded worshiper a fringed shawl. Both lift their free hand sign of adoration. Concave cyl. seal. Diorite (?), 22 x 12 mm.

Credit Line Purchased from Khabaza, Baghdad; subscription of R. F. Harper, 1889
Other Number PBS XIV: 221 - Other Number

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