Cylinder Seal
![A pale green stone cylinder seal with engraved areas, together with a horizontal brown clay impression representing a beardless male worshiper standing facing right, who points with his right hand and extends the other toward the goddess figure who stands on the back of a couchant lion. The goddess raises her right hand and holds a bow and two arrows in her left. Behind the two figures are a date-palm and two rearing crossed ibexes.](https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/ishtar-gate/objects/cylinder-seal-ishtar/@@images/ab17cef1-0b23-4c7b-93ce-c8a98a196f14.jpeg)
Cylinder Seal and Modern Impression
- Description:
- Cylinder seal and modern impression with a worshipper or priest before the goddess Ishtar standing on a lion
- Medium:
- Green grossular garnet
- Location:
- Probably Mesopotamia, Iraq
- Dimensions:
- H. 4.3 cm; Diam. 1.8 cm
- Date:
- Neo-Assyrian or Neo-Babylonian Period, ca. 721–705 BCE
- Inventory Number:
- 1835,0510.2
- Lender:
- The British Museum
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