Cylinder seal and modern impression: suppliant goddess and offering bearer approaching Ishtar, three columns of inscription
Object type: Cylinder seal
Department: Ancient Near Eastern Art
Culture: Babylonian
Period: Old Babylonian
Date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE
Medium: Hematite
Dimensions: H. 15/16 in. (2.4 cm);  Diam. 1/2 in. (1.2 cm)
Classification: Stone-Cylinder Seals-Inscribed
Geography:      Mesopotamia 
Credit line: Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, in memory of Charles Dikran and Beatrice Kelekian, 1999
Accession year: 1999
Tags: Men|Goddess