Français : Impression d'un sceau cylindrique qui pourrait illustrer un épisode de la mythologie sumérienne où Dumuzi, un berger originaire de la ville d'Uruk, fut contraint de descendre dans le monde souterrain.
English: Printing of a cylindrical seal which might depict a tale from Sumerian mythology in which Dumuzi, a shepherd hailing from the city of Uruk, was compelled to enter the underworld.
Henrietta Mac Call (1999) Mesopotamian Myths (University of Texas Press & British Museum Publications ed.), Bath (Avon), p. 71 ISBN: 9780292751309.
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Rollsiegel, wahrscheinlich Dumuzzi gefangen in der Unterwelt, von Schlangen flankiert
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