Cylinder Seal

B8976

From: Iraq | Tello

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B8976
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 a flounced robe. In front of her there is a long necked bird. A divine attendant with horned mitre, her hair tied in a loop, a plaited shawl covering one shoulder, leads by the hand the bareheaded worshiper in a fringed shawl. Two illegible lines of inscription have been engraved at a later date. Concave cyl. seal. Soapstone, 23 x 11 ½ mm. Shatra, 1891

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition II, 1890
Other Number PBS XIV: 230 - Other Number | P263793 - CDLI Number

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