| Object Number | CBS3657 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
| Locus | West side of Shatt |
| Period | Middle Babylonian Period |
| Date Made | 1400-1100 BCE |
| Section | Babylonian |
| Materials | Clay |
| Description | PBS XIV: The Babylonian plow with a team of two humped bulls and a feeding tube for the seed over the ploughshare. There is a plough boy in front guiding the team, a plough man behind holding the handles, and a third feeding the tube with the seed to be dropped at the bottom of the furrow. The seal had a metal caps with rhomb and palmette decoration, and moreover a cross and a rhomb, the common emblems of the Cassite period. “Arad Ninsar” Seal impress. on a clay tablet dated in the 4th year of Nazimaruttash. Nippur. 21x22 lines; 11.45x6.7x3.1 cm. |
| Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition to Nippur II, 1890 |
| Other Number | P260029 - CDLI Number | PBS XIV: 569 - Other Number | B3657 - Old Museum Number | CBS 03657 - Other Number |
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