Cylinder Seal
B14454
Location: On Display in the Preserving Assyria
From: Iraq
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | B14454 |
| Current Location | Preserving Assyria - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq |
| Period | Assyrian |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Diorite |
| Description | PBS XIV: The Assyrian kneeling bowman shooting the wild bull. He has a beard, long hair a short fringed tunic girded about, a quiver and a sword hung across his shoulders. The bull has fallen on his knees, smitten to death. The sign between them formed of two cross nails, designs the bowman as a god: ilu, Bel-Marduk, Ninib or Ashur. There are a crescent and a star above. Convex cyl. seal. Black diorite, 26 x 11 ½ mm. MS Coll |
| Length | 2.7 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 1.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | PBS XIV: 576 - Other Number | 1409 - Sommerville Gem Number | 29-128-1409 - Old Museum Number | P269420 - CDLI Number |
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