Cylinder Seal

B7329

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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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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