Cylinder Seal
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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