Stamp seal: worshiper kneeling before mushhushshu-dragon and standard, Neo-Babylonian, ca. 6th–5th century B.C., Southern Mesopotamia, Chalcedony, blue, Seal Face: 2.41 x 1.55 cm, Stone-Stamp Seals-Inscribed, This stamp seal depicts a kneeling figure before divine symbols. The figure, bearded and wearing a diadem, raises his hands in a gesture of prayer and supplication. Before him can be seen a couchant mushhushshu, the composite dragon associated particularly with Babylon’s chief deity Marduk, whose spade 'standard' rises from its back
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Stamp seal, worshiper kneeling, mushhushshu-dragon, standard, Neo-Babylonian, ca, 6th–5th century B.C, Southern Mesopotamia, Chalcedony, blue, Seal Face, 2.41 x 1.55 cm, Stone-Stamp Seals-Inscribed, stamp, seal, depicts, kneeling figure, divine symbols, figure, bearded, wearing, diadem, raises, hands, gesture, prayer, supplication, couchant mushhushshu, composite dragon, associated, particularly, Babylon, chief, deity, Marduk, spade, rises, back
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