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-5- is open in front and decorated by drillings. Peg and this figure, the arm, Op, and mitre of a god brandishing an emblem or a weapon can be made out; A dot rosette occurs in the interlace between the hands of smaller figures. The god brandishing a weapon or emblem is a weather god type and he made bearded hero with flowing vine is an adjunct of the water god.
P Daniel [handwritten: this piece] was described [handwritten: it] as Pre-Kassite in style and dated it to the First Dynasty of Babylon (on the authority of Olmstead and von der Osten, according to his notes). E.Porada dated this piece to the end of the First Dynasty of Babylon, very roughly about the end of the seventeenth century/ and beginning of the sixteenth century B.C. [handwritten: 20], which indicates a lapse of perhaps three centuries between
Handwritten: occurrence in the late fourteenth century B.C.
the manufacture of the seal and its [handwritten: use] on the pithos neck at Bamboula. Such an object must have been a highly individual possession at Bamboula, perhaps a kind of heirloom which served as a coat of arms. Its use on the pithos, which its owner probably commissioned, would then have served the purpose both of absolute identification and of ornamentation. In any case, this cylinder stands out very distinctly from the group of nine obviously more commonplace cylinder seals [handwritten: 21] of Cypriote manufacture otherwise found at the site of Bamboula.
[handwritten: 22] Sh 720 (Fig 2 Pl. ; Fig. 3 Pl. ) is a fragment from the body of a large storage jar, probably from the lower shoulder or belly, to judge by michena and curvature. The clay is light gray-brown at the core to [handwritten: (cont. next page)]
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain