Description (Catalog Card): Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Blue. 2 registers. Bangquet scene. Above: seated god holding food? in upright left hand. nest a second seated figure holding up left hand to greet a standing attendant. Third seated figure also holding food in upraised left hand, and standing figure also holding food? opposite. All are shaven and shorn and wear sheep skin dresses. Below: A seated figure holding up hand towards door of shrine? Behind him a second seated figure holding up food which has been handed him by standing attendant. Behind this seated god a standing attendant facing the door of the shrine hands upraised. All have heads shaven and shorn and sheep skin dresses like figures on top register. c. 3000BC.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 15     
Material (Catalog Card): Lapis lazuli2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): L. 29mm, D. 10mm     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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