Cylinder Seal

B1102

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B1102
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Section Near Eastern
Materials Chalcedony
Description

CBS Register: Seal, shape of a sealing, chalcedony.

PBS XIV: a nude kneeling hunter, with bird-like head in profile, lifts up with out-stretched arms two reversed ibexes. A small standing figure, with a belt and a short loin cloth, is praying with the two hands up. Cyl. seal. Calcite stalacite, 29 x 19 mm. Bagdad, 1889.

Credit Line Purchased from Khabaza, Baghdad; subscription of R. F. Harper, 1889
Other Number PBS XIV: 90 - Other Number

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