Cylinder Seal (with modern impression), marble?, Uruk Period
From the Uruk - Southern Mesopotamian Period, 3100 BCE - 4000 BCE
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Uruk period seals often depicted scenes of a figure seen wearing the roll brimmed hat and net skirt feeding animals or temple herds.
gathering around him ,the figure feeds flowery branches of rosettes, two rams flanked by the gate-post symbol for Inanna, which suggest that these animals were associated with her temple. The new-born calf and grain jars suggest a preoccupation with daily survival and the ensuring of fertile herds and crops, under the protection of both the Goddess and the figure.
Horne, Lee and Richard L. Zettler. Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1998, fg 38ab.
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