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Cylinder seal with a presentation scene showing an interceding goddess standing with a worshipper before a king. A sun-disk within a crescent appears above. The inscription gives the names of a scribe and his father.
Length: 0.03 m
Width: 0.017 m
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, F.
Old Babylonian
Circa
-2000
-
-1801
dark green Serpentine
Accession number: ANE.111.1904
Primary reference Number: 88853
Oldadmincategory: O
Oldobjectnumber: WAE.111.1904
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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