Cylinder Seal

Object Number:

30-12-42

Current Location:

Collections storage

Provenience:

Iraq
Ur

Section:

Near Eastern

Materials:

Lava Stone

Iconography:

God
Palm Tree
Crescent

Description:

CBS Register. Ur 1928-9, Season VII. Cylinder Seal. Lava. presentation to a seated god, palm tree, crescent. no field number UE X: Offering to a seated goddess (?) One woman is busy picking bunches of dates from a palm-tree, which the other presents to the seated lady. There is a footstool below her feet, a relief on the side -panel of her stool, a crescent in the sky aobve. Yet she wears no horned mitre. All have the same long hair doubled up and tied into a chignon. All are draped in the same fringed robe. Bituminous limestone cylinder. No field number.

Length:

2cm

Width:

1cm

Credit Line:

Joint British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq

Other Number:

UE X: 278	-	Other Number
B17761	-	Old Museum Number

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