| Object Number | B14482 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian |
| Date Made | ca. 800 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Agate |
| Iconography | Genius | Griffin | Fish |
| Description | CBS Register: Seal cylinder, Agate. Neo Babylonian. PBS XIV: The four-winged Bel-Marduk holds two winged sphinxes. He has the usual round mitre, long beard and hair and open flounced robe. The sphinxes have a bearded human head, a lion's body and tail and the wings of an eagle. Their hind legs and tail form a rhomb below the crescent. There is a fish in the field. Roughly cut with wheel and burr. Convex cyl. seal. Blue chalcedony, 27 x 14 1/2 mm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | PBS XIV: 619 - Other Number | 1377 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-1377 - Old Museum Number | CBS14482 - Other Number | P269448 - CDLI Number |
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