Collection Cylinder Seal with Goddess and Inscription of Owner's Name

Cylinder Seal with Goddess and Inscription of Owner's Name

Babylonian, Mesopotamian

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in

Ancient Middle East Gallery, Level 1, West Wing

Cylinder Seal with Goddess and Inscription of Owner's Name
Cylinder Seal with Goddess and Inscription of Owner's Name: 1 of Collection Gallery
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About the Artwork

Cylinder Seal with Goddess and Inscription of Owner's Name

1800 - 1700 BCE

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Mesopotamian

Babylonian

Agate

Overall: 1 3/8 × 11/16 inches (3.5 × 1.7 cm)

Glyptic Art

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

45.499

This work is in the public domain.

Markings

Inscribed: [translated: Enlil-abi, son of Abi-iddinam, servant of (the god) Amurrim.]

Provenance

(Charles L. Morley)

1945-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

von der Osten, H.H. Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mrs. Agnas Baldwin Brett. The University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications, 1936, vol. XXXVII, pp. 1, 12, 25, 45-46, 60; pl. VIII, 74.

Bulletin of the DIA 42, no. 4 (1963): pp. 73-75 (ill.).

Meerchyad, Lina. "Ancient Mesopotamian Seals in the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts," Bulletin of the DIA 90, no. 1/4 (2016): pp. 67 (fig. 14), 70, no. 13.

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Babylonian, Mesopotamian, Cylinder Seal with Goddess and Inscription of Owner's Name, 1800 - 1700 BCE, agate. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 45.499.

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