Cylinder Seal

B14496

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B14496
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Period Ur I
Section Near Eastern
Materials Hematite
Description

PBS XIV: Two nude hunters with head in profile and only a belt attack a rampant lion and reversed bull. Both have one leg lifted up. A winged dragon with a feather tail seems ready to devour a kneeling nude man with short hair and beard, a belt and a fillet about his head, a symbol of the vanquished enemy.

Cyl. seal. Hematite, 19 ½ x 9 mm. MS Coll.

Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number PBS XIV: 272 - Other Number | P269462 - CDLI Number

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