Cylinder Seal
![A banded, brown, white-brown and white stone cylinder seal with engraved areas, together with horizontal brown clay impression representing a bearded figure in a tall, horizontally-ridged, crescent-topped, cylindrical head-dress, holding a staff in one hand and raising the other. The male figure rises from a crescent and hovers facing right, before a bearded worshipper, who wears a round, narrow-brimmed hat and raises one hand. Back to back with this figure stands another identical figure, who raises one hand before a couchant long-necked, four-legged creature with a spade on its back. All three figures wear vertically-fringed, double-belted robes. The figures are small in relation to the height of the seal. The coloring of many of the brown bands is milky and concentrated in a fracture.](https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/ishtar-gate/objects/cylinder-seal-sin-spade/@@images/52b55415-e5f1-4dd0-9522-0e13507e4fab.jpeg)
Cylinder Seal and Modern Impression
- Description:
- Cylinder seal and modern impression with two worshippers or priests, one before the moon-god Sin in a crescent, and one before the divine symbol of Marduk (spade) on a mušhuššu-dragon altar
- Medium:
- Dyed sardonyx
- Location:
- Probably Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq
- Dimensions:
- H. 2.9 cm; Diam. 1.6 cm
- Date:
- Neo-Babylonian Period, ca. 700–539 BCE
- Inventory Number:
- 1983,0101.305
- Lender:
- The British Museum
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