Casts Of Cylinder Seal
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1889
name: label: Donor Name
content: Department Of Anthropology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: Original of greenish serpentine, in Metropolitan Museum. Marduk with bow, quiver, and ax, attacking Tiamat, represented iwth head and forelegs of a lion, hind legs of an eagle, body covered with feathers, wings, short tail, phallus having head of snake. The god stands upon another smaller dragon with scorpion tail. He shoots his three pringed arrow of lightning. In the field: Winged disk - Ashur, crescent - Sin, star - Ishtar; below fish, two shrubs and sacred tree. This seal is one of the largest and probably also one of the oldest of the class. The lower end to the right is broken off. Cf. Ward, The seal cylinders of western Asia, p. 197, fig 565 and p. 199. Illus., Proc. U.S.Nat'l Museum, Vol. 69, art. 4, pl. 3,3, 1926.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Not Given
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022326
label: USNM Number
content: A130285-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Seal