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Cylinder seal
Near Eastern, Mesopotamian, Assyrian
Neo-Assyrian
883–612 B.C.
Object Place: Mesopotamia
Medium/Technique
Cloudy chalcedony
Dimensions
Legacy dimension: 35 mm x 15.5
Credit Line
William Francis Warden Fund and funds donated by Mrs. Oric Bates, Mrs. F. Carrington Weems, and Horace L. Mayer
Accession Number65.1517
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsSeals
DescriptionNeo-Assyrian drilled style. Worshipper at right stands before Adad who stands on back of recumbent bull and holds lightning bolt. A goddess, holding a ringlet (Ishtar?), stands to his rear. Two vertical panels of inscription behind worshipper. Crescent at right and "seven dots" (the Pleiades) at left flanking the god.
Provenance1965, sold by R. Moussa, through Ali Tehranian, Little Falls, NJ, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 10, 1965)