Agate cylinder seal with a female figure and an inscription

An image of Cylinder seal with a solitary female figure opposite an inscription, which gives the name of a scribe and that of Nabu, the patron deity of scribes. Banded agate, brown, white, length 0.028 m, 1600-1401 B.C. Late Old Babylonian to Early Kassite period.

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Cylinder seal with a solitary female figure opposite an inscription, which gives the name of a scribe and that of Nabu, the patron deity of scribes. Banded agate, brown, white, length 0.028 m, 1600-1401 B.C. Late Old Babylonian to Early Kassite period.

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Accession Number: ANE.30.1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/39.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 713 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 376.25kB
Exposure time: 1/20
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 39/1

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agate antiquity Babylonian BC cylinder seal Fitz_ANT inscribed inscriptions Iraqi Kassite Dynasty language Old Babylonian scribe script seal texts

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