SN1 Nipper: Pleasing INANNA

Sumerian cylinder seal now at the Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago.  It is carved out of blue Lapis Lazuli 22 mm high and 11 mm in diameter). It was found at Inanna temple IV in a drain in the Sumerian city of Nippur in modern day Iraq on November 2, 1956. It is dated the the Third Dynasty of Ur between 2050 and 2200 BCE. Registration Number: A30568,  Accession Number: 3346, Field Number: 5N-236. Online at: https://oi-idb.uchicago.edu/id/968fe5d1-5627-4c33-8ae7-96da263845ae

The scene shows a priestess leading a supplicant towards a goddess. Between them is the symbol combining the crescent moon (INANNA) with the watery sun disk (AN)

The text reads (top to bottom, right to left)

1. To please the silvery-one (crescent moon INANNA) milk her
2. To control AN control the high network (which is edited by INANNA)
3. AN is pleased by INANNA
4. his spouse

Lexicon used for this translation: About This Early-Sign Sumerian Lexicon