AN ELAMITE BLACK SERPENTINE CYLINDER SEAL

SUKKALMAH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1850-1500 B.C.

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AN ELAMITE BLACK SERPENTINE CYLINDER SEAL
Sukkalmah Dynasty, Circa 1850-1500 B.C.
With a goddess on the right seated on a chair with a short back upon a dais, wearing a horned tiara and a long robe, holding a branch in one hand, a worshipper standing before her with both arms raised, wearing a long robe, with a lunar crescent, a seated monkey, a fly and a goat as fillers, the terminal a three line inscription in Elamite cuneiform reading "Amma-halki, daughter of Ninzu-shamu, slave girl of Allattu"
30 x 11.5 mm

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The personal name Amma-halki is also known from a legal document found at Haft-Tepe, as a property owner (see Scheil, Actes Juridiques Susiens, no. 72). The only other occurrence of the god Allattu in Elamite sources is in the personal name Kuk-Allattu on a stele of King Tempti-ahar from Haft-Tepe. It is possible that this is the seal of the property owner from the Haft-Tepe legal document.

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