Description (Catalog Card): Cylinder seal. Steatite. Green. Enthroned god with high horned headdress and kaunakes skirt stretching out wand to bull supporting shrine on his back. On either side of shrine, wings outspread and behind shrine a worshipper carrying a curved staff in his outstretched hands. Hair done up in a knot above shoulders. Bull is probably a symbol of strength and thus supports the shrine, the worshipper is probably represented as about to enter and the god as seated within. [drawing]1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): G44 No. 5 Quiet St, Room 6. Just below roof of Larsa grave of corbelled bricks, below Larsa floor of Tablet Room off Quiet Street. EM     
Material (Catalog Card): Steatite2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): H. 26mm, D. 14mm     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley
[3] Data collected by British Museum research team.

Locations: 7909 | 1928,1009.28 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media: 7909 | 1928,1009.28 Export: JSON - XML - CSV Woolley's Catalog Cards

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Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:145 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:145 (none)
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