--- title: Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal Possibly Depicting Tiamat as a Serpent author: The Trustees of the British Museum source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12163/neo-assyrian-cylinder-seal-possibly-depicting-tiam/ format: machine-readable-alternate license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) updated: 1970-01-01 --- # Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal Possibly Depicting Tiamat as a Serpent _Authored by The Trustees of the British Museum_ ## Image File [![Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal Possibly Depicting Tiamat as a Serpent](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/12163.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/12163.jpg) ## Image Caption The seal may illustrate a scene from the epic of creation in which the forces of chaos, led by [Tiamat](https://www.worldhistory.org/Tiamat/), are defeated by a [god](https://www.worldhistory.org/God/) representing cosmic order, probably [Ninurta](https://www.worldhistory.org/Ninurta/). 900 BCE - 750 BCE ## Cite This Work ### APA Museum, T. T. o. t. B. (2020, May 04). Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal Possibly Depicting Tiamat as a Serpent. *World History Encyclopedia*. ### Chicago Museum, The Trustees of the British. "Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal Possibly Depicting Tiamat as a Serpent." *World History Encyclopedia*, May 04, 2020. . ### MLA Museum, The Trustees of the British. "Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal Possibly Depicting Tiamat as a Serpent." *World History Encyclopedia*, 04 May 2020, . ## License & Copyright The British Museum has released this image under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International ([CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)) license. You can read more about the British Museum and Creative Commons [here](https://www.britishmuseum.org/about_this_site/terms_of_use/copyright_and_permissions.aspx). [Original image](https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1896-0619-1) by [**The Trustees of the British Museum**](https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1896-0619-1). Submitted by [Ibolya Horváth](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/horvath.ibolya/ "User Page: Ibolya Horváth"), published on 04 May 2020. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en). This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.