Cylinder Seal
32-40-334
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 32-40-334 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Ur |
| Archaeology Area | Ziggurat NW, 1931, under pavement of room III, level II |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Diorite |
| Technique | Drill |
| Iconography | Standing Figure | Seated Figure |
| Description | worked by drill, standing figure, arms raised, two seated figures. UE X: a human figure stands facing front, with hands raised on either side as if praying. Two men are squatting beside him apparently on a dais above the level of the jars placed on the ground, and a canopy seems to extend over their heads. Their mode of sitting with one leg doubled under them, and the other knee half raised, is found only on archaic monuments, seals, and statues. Group of dots on the other side of the standing man may perhaps represent a goat (?) on a much-damaged background. Diorite cylinder. |
| Length | 5.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 3.7 cm |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1932 |
| Other Number | U.17872 - Field No SF | UE X: 24 - Other Number |
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