Cylinder seal and modern impression: suppliant goddesses
Unknown artist
Date: ca. 17th–16th century BCE
Medium: Agate
Dimensions: 1 1/8 × 9/16 × 9/16 in. (2.9 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm)
Classification: Stone-Cylinder Seals-Inscribed
Culture: Babylonian or Kassite
Period: late Old Babylonian–early Kassite
Themes: Goddess
Gift of Georg Hahn, 1947
Date range
-1700 – -1500
Largest dimension
1.5 cm
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