cylinder seal
- Museum number
- 132850
- Description
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Chlorite cylinder seal; standard presentation scene; a shaven-headed worshipper, who wears a fringed robe and raises his right hand, is led by the hand by a goddess who wears a plain robe and a head-dress with a single pair of horns (this is not always visible owing to wearing-down of the seal's surface). She raises her left hand and approaches a goddess who wears a similar head-dress and a flounced robe and who holds out her right hand. She sits on a single box-like throne, with a low back, placed on a dias. Before her is a two-handled vase (?) resembling the "depas amphikypellon" of Bronze Age Anatolia, but the handles are up to the rim; a swimming goose, facing left takes the place of the crescent moon. Both were probably added when the inscription was erased and the figures were recut. One of the verticals of the inscription frame is barely visible but the other is still clearly marked. There are stratches on the upper part of the panel, perhaps a mock inscription; worn?.
- Production date
- 2100BC-2000BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.25 centimetres
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Diameter: 0.4375 inches
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Height: 2.73 centimetres
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Height: 1.0625 inches
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair?; worn?
- Acquisition date
- 1960
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 132850
- Registration number
- 1960,0517.22