Cylinder Seal

B1044

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B1044
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Period Achaemenid Period
Date Made 6-4th centuries BCE
Section Near Eastern
Materials Marmolite
Description

CBS Register: seal cylinder, marmolite

PBS XIV: The Persian hero, seizes by the leg two rampant winged ibexes with heads turned aside. The reverse has a crescent over a plant of life like the silphium. Cyl. seal. Marmolite, 28 x 10 mm.

Length 2.8 cm
Outside Diameter 1 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Khabaza, Baghdad; subscription of R. F. Harper, 1889
Other Number PBS XIV: 662 - Other Number

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