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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