cylinder seal
- Museum number
- 89397
- Description
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Dark? brownish-red magnetite cylinder-seal with some hematite and quartz; the suppliant goddess, in a garment of many folds, elevating both her hands in adoration (with necklace counterweight) and the king with a mace, in a short garment, face the ascending sun god and a second god in ascending posture who holds a lightning fork. Both gods are dressed alike, though the second has a wider belt, and both rest a foot on a chequer-board mountain on a base-line. The second god is, however, carved at a slightly higher level than the first. Between the gods are a star-disc and crescent; slightly chipped.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.20 centimetres
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Length: 2.45 centimetres
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Length: 0.9375 inches
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good / fair; slightly chipped.
- Acquisition date
- 1843
- Acquisition notes
- Found in Hillah in 1829. WAA register entry and record card state "purchased from the executors of the estate of the late Sir Keith Jackson in 1843" but the xerox of the Egyptian register states "purchased of Sir Keith Jackson 4th L. Dragoons with Mr Doubleday".
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 89397
- Registration number
- 1843,1114.8