Cylinder Seal And 6 Casts
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1900
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Gabriel Oussani
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Porphyry. Ishtar in her character as goddess of war (Ishtar of Arbela) in high headdress, with one foot on dove, her bird, holding in right hand the Babyl. serpent Caduceus, in the left the serpent scimitar common to her and Marduk. In front of her low cap, short tunic, flounced dress, Ramman Martu and Shala with lifted hands in high headgear. The former holding in right hand hamer or club, left arm hangs down. Between them small figure in short tunic. Behind Shala two columns of inscription and another god in short tunic - Adad, holding ax (?). A small animal - monkey? - climbing up to Ishtar. From her shoulders rises a sheaf of clubs. Cf. W. H. Ward, The seal cylinders of Western Asia, p. 158, fig. 417. One pair of casts presented to the Museum of the Catholic University, September 6, 1918. Illus., Proc., U.S. National Musem, Vol. 69, Art. 4, 1926, pl. 6, 7. "Doubtful" - Edith Parada, Met. Mus. of Art, N.Y.C. - 5/5/45."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Hillah, Babil Governorate (Babylon Province), 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: 037297
label: USNM Number
content: A207926-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Seal