— Dominique Collon —Figure 7. 22 Robed figure holding staff. Inscribed ‘(Seal) of Marduk-shakin-shumi, son of Marduk-
zera-uballit, descendant of Yakin, of/governor of the town of Usur-Marduk’. Variegated black and
white diorite. 3. 35 × 1. 4. BM ANE 129532 ( 1945 - 10 - 13 , 76 ) (Collon 2001 , no. 388 ).Figure 7. 23 Votive seal carved in relief (NB). The storm god Adad on a dais. Inscribed (middle
short line), probably in the ninth century BC, ‘The seal of the god Adad’; straddling short lines
added: ‘Property of the god Marduk’ and ‘of the Esagila’ (i.e. the temple of Marduk in Babylon).
Long lines added: ‘To the god Marduk, great lord, his lord, Esarhaddon, king of the universe, king
of Assyria [ 680 – 669 BC], has given (this seal) for his life’. Lapis lazuli. 12. 5 × 3. 2. Berlin,
Vorderasiatische Museum, VA Bab 647. Excavated in Babylon (Collon 1987 , no. 563 ).(a) (b)