Cylinder Seal

B14428

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B14428
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Period Sargonic
Section Near Eastern
Materials Serpentine
Description

CBS Register: seal cylinder, diorite, serpentine. Sargonic.

PBS XIV: a nude hunter with head in profile, fights with a rampant lion. he has a fillet about his hair. a second hunter, in short loin cloth, attacks a human headed bison in front face. the pine tree on the reverse suggestes the wooded hills of Elam. Concave cyl. seal. Black diorite, 18 1/2 x 9 1/2 mm. MS. Coll.

Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number PBS XIV: 75 - Other Number | 1669 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-1669 - Old Museum Number | P269394 - CDLI Number

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