Stamp Seal

B14523

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B14523
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Period Neo-Babylonian
Date Made ca. 625 BCE
Section Near Eastern
Materials Chalcedony
Description

Sommerville #1444 (1889): Pale brownish chalcedony. Assyrian Seal. A priest before an altar on which burns a lamp. Also the crescent of a new moon.

PBS XIV: The Babylonian worshiper as above adoring with both hands the emblems of Marduk and Nabu resting on the back of the horned dragon crouched on a base altar, below the crescent.

Octagonal cone seal with convex face. Chalcedony, 17 ½ x 13 ½ mm. MS Coll.

Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number PBS XIV: 681 - Other Number | 1444 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-1444 - Old Museum Number | CBS14523 - Other Number | P269489 - CDLI Number

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