| Object Number | L-29-457A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Near East |
| Period | Middle Babylonian Period | Kassite Period |
| Date Made | 1400-1100 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Glass |
| Description | Cobalt blue galss cylinder; 2 figures inscribed. 1 original plaster impression (b) Matthews: Hilprecht coll., glass cylinder seal, greenish-blue. Hilprecht cat. 62, gift of Sultan Abdul Hamid, Nippur. 29 x diam. 12. Inscription in four vertical lines. Two men in ladder-patterned robes and martial attitude with curved swords; in field, two animal heads, bull, bird. The first three of these symbols were subsequently drilled out. Top and bottom lines. Inscription: "Marduk, great lord/Merciful god/Sa-lamassi-damqa/Is the servant who reverences him." |
| Height | 2.9 Measurement Unit Not Provided |
| Width | 1.2 Measurement Unit Not Provided |
| Other Number | HIL.CAT.62 - Other Number | 1929-6-188-107a - Philadelphia Museum of Art Number | P511794 - CDLI Number | UM L-29-457 - Other Number |
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