stamp-seal; bezel

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Object Type: stamp-seal; bezel
Museum number: 120320
Description: Onyx stamp-seal and bezel; engraved with lion standing to left (right when impressed) attacked by scorpions above and below; star above the head. Around, inscription; complete; chipped.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 4thC
Production place: Made in: Asia
Materials
Type series
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 1.40 centimetres; Thickness: 0.30 centimetres; Width: 1.60 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Bivar A D H 1969a / Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Stamp Seals II: The Sassanian Dynasty (DH 2, pl.11); Lajard F 1847 / Introduction a l'etude du culte public et des mysteres de Mithra en Orient et en Occident (pl.LIV C,13 and p.26); Horn P 1890a / Sasanidische Gemmen aus dem British Museum (p.667, no.100 (515), pl.IIa); Pope 1938 / Survey of Persian Art (vol.IV, 256 R); Bivar 1968a / Kushan and Kushano-Sasanian Seals and Kushano-Sasanian Coins: Sasanian Seals in the British Museum (pll.XIX,9)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Fair; chipped.
Subjects: mammal; arachnid; planet/constellation
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1846
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 120320
Registration number: 1846,0523.430

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