Cylinder Seal

Unknown artist

Babylonian

Hematite

Penn Museum

A dark hematite cylinder seal and a gray clay impression of the seal are displayed next to a ruler and a label with the identifier B1833. CBS Register: Babylonian seal cylinder in soft altering hematite. PBS XIV: The worshiping of Adad standing thunderbolt in hand on the back of a passing bull. A rope leads from his hand to the nose of the bull. His second hand seems to press to his chest another weapon. He has a conical hat, perhaps adorned with horns, his hair tied behind and a short tunic. There is no worshiper but an inscription with his name between the god and the divine attendant who adores with one hand up. "Ummi Damkina,//son of Ilituram,''servant of Adad." Concave cyl. seal. Hematite, 25 x 11 mm B1833 Purchased from Khabaza, Baghdad; subscription of R. F. Ha