Serpent and goat-fish (suhurmashu) facing each other


Serpent and goat-fish (suhurmashu) facing each other
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A rising serpent and a goat-fish (suhurmashu) face each other.
Figures, motifs/symbols - goat-fish (suhurmashu)
- serpent: rising
Subcategory bead cylinder seal
Collection Penn Museum
Museum number B14385 – CBS 14385
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: 14, d: 7
Material and features "green glazed pottery"
Style sintered quartz
Scene animal
Transliteration

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Bibliography

Legrain 1925, 314 no. 657 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.