British Museum Adda Seal 89115

British Museum, The Adda Seal, museum number 89115, registration 1891,0509.2553. Greenstone cylinder seal; Shamash with rays, holding a serrated blade, emerging between mountains. (British Museum)

Supports: Akkadian type-object for the held serrated blade; saw remains inside the mountain-rising scene, not extracted as a free badge.

Collon WAS II no. 190 (Adda Seal)

Dominique Collon, Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals II, Akkadian, Post Akkadian, Ur III Periods (London: British Museum Publications, 1982), no. 190, pl. XXVIII. (British Museum Publications)

Supports: Catalogue number and plate for BM 89115; saw as Shamash attribute, not a carpenter tool.

Black and Green on Shamash’s saw

Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary (London: British Museum Press, 1992), s.v. “Šamaš,” “saw.” (British Museum Press)

Supports: Standard identification of the serrated blade as the sun-god’s attribute; justice-cutting reading treated as later gloss in visitor copy.

Aruz and Wallenfels 2003 no. 139 Adda Seal

Joan Aruz and Ronald Wallenfels, eds., Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), no. 139, pp. 213–214 (Adda Seal). (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Supports: Published object context for BM 89115 within Akkadian divine iconography.