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Mudstone Cylinder Seal. Late Uruk - Early Akkadian Period, Circa 3000 - 2300 Bc.

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"Mudstone Cylinder Seal. Late Uruk - Early Akkadian Period, Circa 3000 - 2300 Bc."

A mudstone cylinder seal.

Late Uruk - early Akkadian period, circa 3000 - 2300 BC.

The seal measures 3.3 x 1.2cm.

Cylinder seals are seen from the fourth millennium B.C onwards in Mesopotamia, (modern day Iraq) they would have been rolled along wet clay in order to serve as an identifying mark of ownership.

This particular seal depicts a cultic scene with the Priest King Duzumid feeding his consort Inanna’s rearing ram flowers. Inanna is the Queen of Heaven within the Sumerian culture. At Dumuzid’s feet is a small alter, the Sumerian mythology has strong symmetry and represents fertility and the harvest.

There is a remarkably similar cylinder seal in the collection of the National Museum in Berlin.