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sealing
;
seal-impression
Object Type
sealing
seal-impression
Museum number
84588
Description
Baked clay sealing, possibly for papyrus, including seal impression bearing inscription; incomplete; chipped; deposit.
Cultures/periods
Hittite
Production date
650BC
(?circa)
8thC BC(early)
(?)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
South West Palace (Nineveh)
Materials
fired clay
Technique
impressed
Dimensions
Length:
0.50 inches
Width:
0.375 inches
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
According to exhibition label "sent to the Assyrian king from Asia Minor"
Bibliographic references
Leichty E et al 1988a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, volume VIII: Tablets from Sippar 3
(p.367)
Bossert H T 1942a / Altanatolien: Kunst und Handwerk in Kleinasien
(pl.251.982)
CIH / Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humaniorum conditum atque digestum, IV, Inscriptiones Himyariticas et Sabaeas continens
(pl.39.6)
Layard A H 1849a / The monuments of Nineveh, from drawings made on the spot
(pl.69,23)
Location
Not on display
Condition
Fair; incomplete; chipped; deposit.
Associated places
Used in:
Turkey
(?)
Acquisition name
From:
Sir Austen Henry Layard
Acquisition date
1851
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
84588
Registration number
1851,0902.107