Cylinder Seal

B8984

From: Iraq | Tello

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B8984
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Tello
Period Babylonian Period
Section Near Eastern
Materials Soapstone
Description

CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder, soapstone

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a seated goddess with hand extended below the crescent. She has the usual horned mitre, hair tied I a loop, and flounced robe. The divine attendant, with the same mitre and hair but a plaited robe covering one shoulder, leads by the hand the shaven and shorn worshiper in a fringed shawl. Both adore with their free hand up.

“Imda//Shat-Sin//wife of Imda-a” Cyl. seal. Serpentine, 20 x 9 mm.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition II, 1890
Other Number PBS XIV: 253 - Other Number | P263801 - CDLI Number

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