Cylinder Seal

30-12-42

From: Iraq | Ur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 30-12-42
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Ur
Section Near Eastern
Materials Lava Stone
Iconography God | Palm Tree | Crescent
Description

CBS Register. Ur 1928-9, Season VII. Cylinder Seal. Lava. presentation to a seated god, palm tree, crescent. no field number

UE X: Offering to a seated goddess (?) One woman is busy picking bunches of dates from a palm-tree, which the other presents to the seated lady. There is a footstool below her feet, a relief on the side -panel of her stool, a crescent in the sky aobve. Yet she wears no horned mitre. All have the same long hair doubled up and tied into a chignon. All are draped in the same fringed robe. Bituminous limestone cylinder. No field number.

Length 2 cm
Width 1 cm
Credit Line British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1930
Other Number UE X: 278 - Other Number | B17761 - Old Museum Number

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