Cylinder Seal

B9095

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B9095
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Period Babylonian
Section Near Eastern
Materials Serpentine
Description

CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder, serpentine

PBS XIV: Contests of divine and human heroes. Shamash illuminated with rays but stripped like an athlete, except for a belt, fights with Eabani. They have locked hands while he seizes him by the tail. Shamash has a horned mitre, a beard, and his hair tied in a loop behind. Eabani is girded about with a large belt, with long hair floating on his shoulders.

Two hero fighters, dressed like Shamash but without his rays, try to reach each other’s crown. One has a dagger, the other a club.

The two last are human fighters with bare head and a short loin cloth. A branch forms the landscape. The victor pulls back the head of his enemy to cut his throat with dagger. The broken club and hanging arms of the latter show him utterly powerless. Concave cyl. seal. Serpentine, 33 x 20 ½ mm

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur II, 1890
Other Number PBS XIV: 150 - Other Number | P264521 - CDLI Number

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