cylinder seal
- Museum number
- 141776
- Description
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Variegated brown, red and pink banded agate cylinder seal; a figure stands facing right, wearing a conical headdress with two tabs at the back, and a robe with a triple belt, a plain edge down the front, decorated with three pairs of diagonal lines (the pair on the right side of the skirt is not clear in the photograph) and with a double hem; he extends a footed cup with a dot as the base, held in his right hand, and raises his left hand with its palm turned towards a figure seated on a double-box throne. The latter is bearded, wears his hair in a bun under a conical headdress, and a robe with diagonal borders across his chest and a quadruple belt, with three flounced sections on the lower part of the skirt; he raises one hand with the palm towards the viewer. Between the two figures is an incense burner with flames or smoke rising from a flat tray supported on a flaring stem, with a globular swelling near the top. Line borders top and bottom.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.54 centimetres
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Height: 4.35 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Edges and lower end chipped.
- Acquisition date
- 1965
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 141776
- Registration number
- 1965,0101.13