The seal depicts two seated figures, a tree, and a serpent, and was formerly believed to evince some connection with Adam and Eve from the Book of Genesis.

[5] This view is backed by David Petersen, who writes that: Collon rightly maintains that this particular seal belongs in the well-established tradition of the Akkadian banquet scene.

In order to prove her case, she points to several features in the so-called "Adam and Eve" seal that may be found in contemporary images.

First, there is a long tradition in Mesopotamian art of representing figures facing a central plant, here a date palm.

The female figure at the left, before the serpent, is almost certainly the goddess Gula-Bau (a counterpart, as we have said of Demeter and Persephone) while male on the right, who is not mortal but a god, as we know from his horned lunar crown, is no less surely his beloved son-husband Dumuzi, Son of the Abyss: Lord of the Tree of Life [...]".