Cast Of Assyrian Cylinder Seal
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1897
name: label: Donor Name
content: Frederick W. Williams
notes: label: Notes
content: from card: Tiamat represented as long serpent with horned head. The god thrusts at serpent's mouth with lance or similar weapon. There is a worshiper and probably an attendant deity or priest. In the field, crescent, rhom, the 7 dots (one missing and 2 small trees - to fill out the space. The original, probably of serpentine, was bought by Rev. W.F.W from an Arab who had come over the river from Layard's diggings near Mosul in 1857. It passed into the hands of Prof. Fred Wells Williams, from him to Dr. Wm. Hays Ward and then to the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York. Cf. W.H. Ward, "The Williams Cylinder" in Bibliotheca Sacra," 1881, p. 224; Smith's Chaldean Genesis, Edition of A.H. Sayu, London, 1881, p. 90; Notes on Isaiah in Polychrome Bible, p. 206; Wm. H. Ward, the Seal Cylinders of Western Asia, Washington, 1910, p. 201, fig. 578. One pair of casts presented to Catholic University September 6, 1918.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 15
place: label: Place
content: Mosul (near), Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, 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: 031615
label: USNM Number
content: A158319-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Seal