Cylinder Seal

B1041

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B1041
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Section Near Eastern
Materials Carnelian | Chalcedony
Description

CBS Register: seal cylinder, carnelian chalcedony

PBS XIV: The four winged Bel-Marduk fights with two rampant antelopes. He has a beard, his hair tied in a mass, an open Assyrian shawl with three zones of fringes. There are, moreover, a palm like tree of life, a fish and a rhomb, symbols of water and earth, and two border lines. Rough work cut with burr and wheel. Convex cyl. seal. Carnelian, 32 1/2 x 13 1/2 mm.

Credit Line Purchased from Khabaza, Baghdad; subscription of R. F. Harper, 1889
Other Number PBS XIV: 605 - Other Number

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