국립중앙박물관 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF KOREA

Cylinder seal with the goddess Ishtar

Dark hematite seal featuring a three-line inscription and a scene with the goddess Ishtar, who holds a mace in her raised right hand and a scimatar in her left. Weapons emerge from her shoulders. Opposite Ishtar is a man with a mace standing on a platform. He is being presented to Ishtar by the pious goddess who stands behind him. Inscription: “Pititum, son of Išme-Sîn, servant of Nergal”