| Object Number | B7319 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Assyrian |
| Provenience | Iraq |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Chalcedony |
| Iconography | King | Animal |
| Description | Note on box: Neo-Bab CBS Register: Glass like stone seal. Persian period. King fighting two human headed winged animals PBS XIV: Bel-Marduk without wings holds by the legs two winged sphinxes. He has the usual round mitre, undulating hair and beard, and open flounced robe above his short tunic. The tasseled end of his belt hangs down to his feet. The sphinxes have a beardless human head with heavy hair and a lion's body. The emblems are the rhomb, a fish, an Assyrian flying sun disk, curiously like an eye. Cyl. seal. Chalcedony, 31 1/2 x 15 mm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | PBS XIV: 620 - Other Number | 1366 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-1366 - Old Museum Number | CBS7319 - Other Number | P262341 - CDLI Number |
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