Spherical Seal Ands Six Casts
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1900
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Gabriel Oussani
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: Drilled transversely. At bottom two goats(?) couchant back to back; in the center design of semicircles (horns?), terminating at top in triangle or pointed arch, crossed by crescent. Perhaps referring to Astarte as worshiped in Cyprus as a sheep. Cf. W. Robertson Smith, Lectures on the Religion of the Semitics, new ed. 1894. "Additional Note A. pp.469-79." One pair of casts presented to the Museum of the Catholic University, September 6, 1918.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 15
place: label: Place
content: Hillah, Babil Governorate (Babylon Province), Iraq (South Babylonia), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 037297
label: USNM Number
content: A207953-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Seal