WESTERN ASIATIC BABYLONIAN AMULETIC CYLINDER 14th-9th century BC A banded agate barrel-shaped bead with four lines of cuneiform text; accompanied by an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Ancient Inscribed Votive of Brown and White Agate: 23 x 13mm. In form this is a bead with barrel shape, and down it are four lines of Babylonian cuneiform: To (the goddess) Gula, / who dwells in Gabitu, / Amat-amilati / gave (this votive). Neither the place Gabitu nor the person Amat-amilati are known elsewhere. Gula was a Babylonian goddess of healing, but not elsewhere known from a local form in Gabitu. The
WESTERN ASIATIC BABYLONIAN AMULETIC CYLINDER 14th-9th century BC A banded agate barrel-shaped bead with four lines of cuneiform text; accompanied by an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Ancient Inscribed Votive of Brown and White Agate: 23 x 13mm. In form this is a bead with barrel shape, and down it are four lines of Babylonian cuneiform: To (the goddess) Gula, / who dwells in Gabitu, / Amat-amilati / gave (this votive). Neither the place Gabitu nor the person Amat-amilati are known elsewhere. Gula was a Babylonian goddess of healing, but not elsewhere known from a local form in Gabitu. The
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