Wild goat (ibex) striding towards spade of Marduk (marru)


Wild goat (ibex) striding towards spade of Marduk (marru)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A wild goat (ibex) strides towards the spade of Marduk (marru).
Figures, motifs/symbols - spade of Marduk (marru)
- wild goat (ibex): striding
Subcategory bead cylinder seal
Collection Penn Museum
Museum number B14352 – CBS 14352
Condition, shape slightly weathered
Culture Neo-Babylonian
Provenance excavated at Nippur in 1894
First occurence 1894
Archaeological context Nippur, hill VIII
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 18, d: 7
Material and features "glazed pottery"
Style sintered quartz
Scene animal, cultic
Transliteration

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Bibliography

Legrain 1925, 313 no. 641 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.