Cylinder Seal with a Presentation Scene and Inscription

21st-20th century BCE (Old Babylonian/Isin Larsa)

1.1 cm 2.2 cm 1.2 cm

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This carved scene features a seated deity, possibly Nergal, facing a standing worshipper with an interceding goddess standing behind him. The worshipper, identified as a scribe named Inzuzu, has his hands clasped, while the goddess has both hands raised. There is an eight-poin...

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Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, London, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Carmichael sale, Sotheby's, London, June 1926, p. 39, no. 355 (526); Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1926, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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