File RAS JOUR/17/2 - Plaster casts for "Six Babylonian and Assyrian Seals"

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GB 891 RAS JOUR-RAS JOUR/17-RAS JOUR/17/2

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Plaster casts for "Six Babylonian and Assyrian Seals"

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  • 1927 (Creation)

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S.H. Langdon was Professor of Assyriology at Oxford. He was born in 1876 in America and lived in America and Paris before moving to Oxford around 1907 and becoming part of the Assyriology department. He also spent some time at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, serving as the curator of its Babylonian section. He died in 1937 at the age of 61 years.

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Three plaster casts to accompany the article "Six Babylonian and Assyrian Seals" by S. H. Langdon, JRAS 1927. The three casts are of the first three seals that Langdon describes. The first is from the period of the Dungi and Isin dynasty (2409-2075). A worshipper stands with hands folded at the waist before a seated deified king, and behind him the mother goddess with both hands raised implores the aid of the divine king for her human protégé. This seal, and the second one, were owned by a Mr Casson of New College, Oxford.

The second seal is of a woman and is engraved with the design of the glyptic of the First Babylonian dynasty – that of the Amorite god Amurru and his wife Shala. The upper circle represents the sun.

The third seal is an Assyrian seal of the Late period and shows a worshipper before a deity who stands upon a mythological animal with human head, bird body and scorpion tail. This seal was owned by a Mr L.D. Grand of the Ministry of Defence in Baghdad.

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