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Cylinder seal: ANE.112.1904

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Current Location: Gallery 23

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Cylinder seal with a presentation scene showing a worshipper before the weather god Adad (standing on a bull). A second worshipper stands in front of a stylized tree and a second divine figure. Seven dots (signifying the Pleiades), a fish, and a rhomb also appear. A bull is engraved on the base.

Measurements and weight

Length: 0.038 m

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, F.

Dating

Neo-Assyrian
Circa -0950 - -0600

School or Style

Neo-Assyrian

Materials used in production

Chalcedony

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Identification numbers

Accession number: ANE.112.1904
Primary reference Number: 88854
Oldadmincategory: O
Oldobjectnumber: WAE.112.1904
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 Last processed: Tuesday 12 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

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