Cylinder Seal

B3792

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B3792
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Section Near Eastern
Materials Soapstone
Description

CBS Register: Seal cylinder in soapstone. Place of discovery not reported to HVH

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a seated goddess, hand extended below the crescent. Her mitre, hair, robe and seat as above. The divine attendant, with the same mitre and hair and a plaited shawl covering one shoulder, leads by the hand the bareheaded worshiper in a fringed shawl.

“Siga…//servant of Ibi…” Concave cyl. seal. Black diorite, 24 ½ x 12 mm.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur II, 1890
Other Number PBS XIV: 247 - Other Number

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