Cylinder Seal

B5465

From: Iraq | Shatra

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B5465
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Shatra
Period Babylonian
Section Near Eastern
Materials Shell
Description

CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder in shell

PBS XIV: Two registers of contexts with wild animals. The upper register has several groups. A nude hunter with bird like head in profile between two rampant bulls (?). Two crossed lions; two crossed human headed bisons; a rampant lion with head turned back toward the first bull. The lower register has two crossed bulls; a lion attacking a reversed oryx, which a second lion also reversed bites in the head. A scorpion. Cyl. seal. Shell, 31 ½ x 14 mm

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition Purchase, 1891
Other Number PBS XIV: 115 - Other Number | P261659 - CDLI Number

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