Cylinder Seal with Goddess, Two Bearded Males and Inscriptions

Description The depicted scene features a bearded, standing deity in a horned crown carrying a mace or staff. The deity faces a bearded, standing worshipper with one raised arm. Behind the deity is a third figure, standing, with both arms raised. All three figures wear long robes. The scene also includes a cuneiform inscription in three registers.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase [formerly part of the Walters Collection], 1941