Inscribed cylinder seal featuring a bearded devotee wearing - Lot 12

Inscribed cylinder seal featuring a bearded devotee wearing a turban carrying a kid and facing the god Shamash, who wears his horned tiara and a striped robe. He holds a saw in his hand. Another figure wearing a short shawl and holding a sword stands opposite an interceding goddess. In the field are balls and a folded measuring instrument. Inscribed Šamaš, Aia / (and) Ninsianna. Hematite. A few chips. Sumerian art, Paleo-Babylonian period (1763 - 1595 B.C.). Height: 2.6 cm Publication : DANMAVILLE, Jenny, "La Collection Thierry", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 1963, vol. 57, p. 176-177, reproduced fig. 3. Indicated as "bought from a Parisian antiquarian as coming from Baghdad". Collection Nicole et Jean-Michel Thierry - lots 1 to 141.