Cylinder Seal

B3791

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B3791
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Section Near Eastern
Materials Soapstone
Description

CBS Register: Seal cylinder in soapstone. Place of discovery not reported to HVH

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a seated goddess with one hand extended. She has the usual horned mitre, hair tied in a loop, flounced robe, and cubic seat resting on a dais. Her breasts are carefully marked. The divine attendant with the same mitre and hair leads by the hand a bareheaded, beardless worshiper. Both wear the fringed shawl and adore with their free hand up.

"Ur-Ninshubur//son of Tiudbushu (?)//boat man." Concave cyl. seal. Serpentine, 31 x 15 1/2 mm. Nippur, 1891.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur II, 1890
Other Number PBS XIV: 254 - Other Number

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