| Object Number | B14439 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq |
| Period | Ur I |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Hematite |
| Description | CBS Register: Seal cylinder. Hematite. Black. Ur, I Dyn. PBS XIV: The worshiping of Shamash as above. A worshiper brings a goat as an offering. He has a turban, a fringed shawl opening in front to let pass his bare leg below his tunic. The usual divine attendant adores with both hands up. The emblems in the field are a crescent, a small nude bandy legged man with a belt, one hand up adoring, while carrying a curved weapon in the other; a small nude man with both hands up, crying for mercy, is fixed upside down on the top of a post as a symbol of an overthrown enemy (?). A squat monkey on a post forms his counterpart. They may be standards around the shrine of the god. Concave cyl. seal. Hematite, 17 x 11 ½ mm. MS Coll. |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | PBS XIV: 413 - Other Number | 1371 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-1371 - Old Museum Number | CBS14439 - Other Number | P269405 - CDLI Number |
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