Cylinder Seal

B7325

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B7325
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq
Period First Dynasty
Section Near Eastern
Materials Diorite
Description

CBS Register: black diorite seal. First dynasty.

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a seated bearded god holding a small cup below a crescent and a sun disk with a cross inscribed. He has a turban, a fringed shawl, a seat covered with three rows of flounced material and resting with a footstool on a dais. A divine attendant, with horned mitre, hair tied in a loop, flounced robe covering one shoulder, leads by the hand the shaven and shorn worshiper in a fringed shawl. Both adore with their free hand up.

“Nannar-igidu, son of Lu-dugga”

Cyl. seal. Serpentine, 24 ½ x 12 ½ mm

Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number PBS XIV: 299 - Other Number | 1415 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-1415 - Old Museum Number | P262347 - CDLI Number

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