Two snakes following horned serpent (bashmu)

Object no. S02019
Description of the seal image Two small snakes follow a coiled-up horned serpent (bashmu).
Figures, motifs/symbols - horned serpent (bashmu): coiled-up
- snakes (2): rising
Subcategory bead cylinder seal
Collection Penn Museum
Museum number B14384 – CBS 14384
Condition, shape slightly weathered
Culture Neo-Babylonian
Provenance excavated at Nippur
First occurence 1893–1896
Archaeological context Nippur
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 12, d: 6
Material and features "green glazed pottery"
Style sintered quartz
Scene animal
Transliteration

N/A

Bibliography

Legrain 1925, 314 no. 656 and pl. XXXIII.



Legrain, L.: The Culture of the Babylonians. From Their Seals in the Collections of the Museum. I–II. (Publications of the Babylonian Section 14) Philadelphia, 1925.

Object history
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