Pendant
Talisman
B14311
From: Iraq | Nippur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | B14311 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Soapstone |
| Technique | Incised |
| Description | CBS Register: square pendant, spade shaped, grey serpentine. Archaic. c.f.Necklace CBS16180. Talisman described in letter of May 18, 1895. -object more likely to be soapstone, and not serpentine PBS XIV: Stone amulet or pendant. The face had a dog above a serpent, a spear head and an oval object – a crescent (?). The reverse has a scorpion below a round disk and a star (?). Serpentine, 32 x 31 mm. Nippur, May 18, 1895 Though she is not formally depicted, this is a Lamashtu amulet in which she is represented by the dog and/or the scorpion. |
| Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition to Nippur III, 1896 |
| Other Number | PBS XIV: 1052 - Other Number | B16180 - Other Number | P269279 - CDLI Number |
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