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Cylinder Seal

1900.53.0082A

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Artifact Identification Cylinder Seal   (1900.53.0082A)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Personal Symbols
    3. :
  3. Personal Identification
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Babylonian
Date 20th – 17th century BCE
Culture Provincial Babylonian

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 2.5 cm
Dimension 2 (Diameter) 1.3 cm
Dimension 3 (N/A) N/A
Weight 11 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Stone--Hematite
Manufacturing Processes Carved, Inscribing, Drilling

Research Remarks

Description

Rogers: An inch long, brown hematite seal. This cylinder pictures Adad, the Weather God, riding his bull, in one hand he holds a thunderbolt, and the other he holds high over his head. A minor diety is presenting him with a lamb, and a Shumerian follows, with both hands raised high to his head.

Porada: A suppliant goddess and a worshipper (bearing a kid) before a weather god (on a bull) brandishing a lightning fork.
Published Description Under Review
Bibliography

Porada, Edith. "Concordance of Seals in the Oriental Museum, UIUC." Unpublished ms., ca. 1950.
Rogers, Frances. Babylonian Seal Cylinders as a Historical Source, UIUC Master's Thesis, 1929.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication N/A
Reproduction no

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