8747

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Object TypeCylinder Seals

MuseumBritish Museum

Season Number05: 1926-1927

TechniqueIncised

MaterialMarble

U Number8747

Description (Modern)Cylinder seal

Description (Catalog Card)Cylinder seal. Marble. Mottled. 5 standing divinities all wearing high horned headdresses. One walks upon the mountain - left leg straight, right leg slightly bent at knee as in an attitude of climbing - in his right hand he holds a plume? Oblique lines on either side touching the shoulders and waist possibly the sun's rays? Facing him a divinity carrying an offering? in his left hand, behind a god carrying a gazelle. Beyond but facing the opposite direction a god Ea? with water flowing from eah shoulder and beyond again a god grasping a ladder, head turned towards Ea as if inviting him to ascend. Possibly this is the ladder of heaven which has already been ascended by all except these two divinities.Woolley's description

Find Context (Catalog Card)PG 384 TTF

Material (Catalog Card)MarbleMaterial as described by Woolley

Museum Number (BM Big Number)120504

Measurement (Catalog Card)L 0034 d 0021