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| Keywords: Mesopotamian - Cylinder Seal with a Deity Accepting an Offering - Walters 42713.jpg This seal depicts a favorite scene of the Old Babylonian period in which a worshiper stands among a number of gods The worshiper in a long robe and cap offers an animal to the sun-god Shamash who rests one foot on a stool and holds the saw of justice in his outstretched hand The sun disk nestled in a crescent floats between the two The goddess Lama stands with her hands raised in supplication Behind her a male figure in a shendyt holds a curving weapon at his side and another figure behind Shamash holds the bucket and sprinkler associated with fertility ca 1850 1595 BC Old Babylonian carved hematite cm 2 3 1 3 accession number 42 713 25283 Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale Joseph Brummer New York 1941 Walters Art Museum 1941 by purchase Museum purchase 1941 place of origin Mesopotamia Walters Art Museum license Cylinder seals in the Walters Art Museum Art of Mesopotamia in the Walters Art Museum Archaeological star glyphs Star of Shamash Babylonian cylinder seal impressions Cylinder seal impressions Walters Art Museum cylinder seal impressions Animal sacrifice in Mesopotamia | ||||
