seal + modern impression
- bibliography and image source:
Martin, Harriet: (unpublished; courtesy British School of Archaeology in Iraq).
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- copyright for image:
British School of Archaeology in Iraq
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• museum number: IM88710
• excavation number: AbS2101
• provenience: Abu Salabikh
• dimension(s) (in cm):
height: 2.6; diam.: 1
• material: shell
• date: (ca. 2500 BC)
• description:
Complete but surface worn and pitted.The seal is a straight sided cylinder with a longitudinal perforation. The design is quite deeply cut in a single register.The seal shows a contest scene showing two crossed lions, each biting at the necks of horned
animals who arch their heads back from the lions. Standing to the right of the right-hand animal is a very schematic figure, perhaps a bull-man. Between his back and the left-hand animal are three short horizontal strokes and above them are drill holes
which may have been intended as a filling motif, e.g. a scorpion.
• status: feared to be stolen
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