Babylonian Cylinders.- 4 stone engraved cylinders, laid in a modern box, c. 2300 BCE - 1800 BCE; and another later cylinder, probably an Eastern forgery (5).

Babylonian Cylinders.- 4 stone engraved cylinders, worn, largest 32mm., smallest 22mm., with 4 19th century ceramic plaques, pencil inscription "From Wilfred Merton's collection", laid in a modern box, c. 2300 BCE - c. 1800 BCE; and another later cylinder, probably an Eastern forgery (5).

⁂ Includes:

(1). Priest with offering introducing a worshipper to seated to the god Samas inscribed with name of Lu-Ningrosu, son of Ur, c. 1800 BCE.

(2). Gizdubar and lion and name of uncertain reading, c. 7 or 8 BCE.

(3). Goddesses adoring the name of Nu-ma (?ilu Ri-sa) anointing a priest of Ea, King of the Abyss..., c. 1700 BCE.

(4). Ur... son of Ur... the official (notary), c. 2300 BCE.

Provenance: Wilfred Merton (1888-1957); author of A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the Collection of Wilfred Merton, 1948.