| Object Number | B14521 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq |
| Period | Late Babylonian Period |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Clay |
| Description | Sommerville #508 (1889): Terra-cotta. Seal. The human faced bull, a symbol of agriculture. Above the baton of an augurer. At the left, the club of Hercules, symbolic of force; at the right before a spring of grain. Of the epoch of Parthenope, the Grecian queen, who found a city where now stand Naples. PBS XIV: a passing lion or bull seen in perspective from behind with tail up in the air, between a flower (?) and a horn like object. Ring impress. on a bell shaped clay bulla perhaps preserved on record, 14 x 13 mm. MS. Coll. |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | PBS XIV: 1014 - Other Number | 508 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-508 - Old Museum Number | P269487 - CDLI Number |
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