Cylinder Seal. The sun god Shamash, facing right, wearing a striped dress, with rays rising from his shoulders, raises his saw-toothed knife in his left hand, holds a lowered mace in his right hand and places his left foot on a mountain. He stands between two gates which are held by two gods who are facing right and each wearing a horned headdress. Akkadian. Serpentine.; YPM BC 037969
Cylinder Seal. The sun god Shamash, facing right, wearing a striped dress, with rays rising from his shoulders, raises his saw-toothed knife in his left hand, holds a lowered mace in his right hand and places his left foot on a mountain. He stands between two gates which are held by two gods who are facing right and each wearing a horned headdress. Akkadian. Serpentine.; YPM BC 037969
Cylinder Seal. The sun god Shamash, facing right, wearing a striped dress, with rays rising from his shoulders, raises his saw-toothed knife in his left hand, holds a lowered mace in his right hand and places his left foot on a mountain. He stands between two gates which are held by two gods who are facing right and each wearing a horned headdress. Akkadian. Serpentine.; YPM BC 037969
Description:
BC number 37969; Babylonian Collection; date: 00.00.00.00; lines: anepigraphic; primary publication: Slanski 2017, A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity, Fig. 1.1; original catalog number NBC 12229 12229 99; accn=YPM.12676; associatedwith=EXH.000177.002,EXH.000089,EXH.000177.001