| Object Number | B5916A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
| Period | Parthian |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Plaster |
| Iconography | Human Head | Enkidu? |
| Description | CBS Register: cast of a mask. stone-inlaid. Bull's ear. Enkidu? Parthian or Achaemenid Period? 18 mm. PBS XVI: (published as B5916) Cast of a stone mask of Enkidu the bullman, with bull’s ears and crescent horns. It has much in common with the glazed mask above (B15461): inlaid eyes and eyebrows, pierced ears, straight cut forehead, probably surmounted by a separate piece, the crescent horns perhaps in a different material. Enkidu and Gilgamesh are traditional protectors of the gates of temples and places and perhaps also of the graves. Original missing. |
| Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900 |
| Other Number | PBS XVI: 191 - Other Number | 5916 - Field Number |
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