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: Battle of Marduk with Tiamat. the four winged god grasps on one side the foreleg of a griffin; on the other that of winged sphinx with scorpion tail. In the field, above the winged disk of Asshur, below on one side of Marduk, his horned dragon, on the other, a dog, the animal of Gulaban. Egyptian (sphinx) and Persian (dog) influence. Cf. W.H. Ward. The seal cylinders of W. Asia, p.205, fig. 662. One pair of casts presented to the Museum of the Catholic University, September 6, 1918 "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: 15
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: A207923-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Seal