Object Number | B7329 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Iraq |
Period | Late Period |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Marble (Stone) |
Description | CBS Register: light marble seal. Late period PBS XIV: A winged dragon in flying gallop with waving feather tail, one leg right in the air and a starlike ornament over his head (?), attacks a monster like an ostrich with a double gazelle head. The flying gallop betrays a western Cretan influence. There are, moreover, a crescent and a bull’s head. Cyl. seal. Impure chalcedony, 20 ½ x 11 ½ mm. MS Coll. |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | PBS XIV: 617 - Other Number | 1697 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-1697 - Old Museum Number | P262351 - CDLI Number |
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