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sealing
Object Type
sealing
Museum number
84545
Description
Domed baked clay sealing with impressions of two oval seals. Each bears a four winged scarab-beetle and one line of inscription above, the second also has a star flanked by two ankh signs above. Incomplete; partially repaired; cracked; abraded; deposit.
Cultures/periods
Phoenician
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Kouyunjik
Materials
fired clay
Technique
impressed
Dimensions
Length:
11 millimetres
(impression naming ʿAtarʿazar)
Length:
11 millimetres
(impression naming Ḥanan)
Length:
0.75 inches
Width:
7 millimetres
(impression naming ʿAtarʿazar)
Width:
6 millimetres
(impression naming Ḥanan)
Width:
0.875 inches
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
See also 1851,0902.57-65 (BM 84541-7), 1851,0902.94 (BM 84575), 1851,0902.383 (BM 84833). All ten impressions are much effaced, and several details, including the inscription, are uncertain. The Aramaic classification of our impression is founded on the association with the impression of ʿAtarʿazar.
Bibliographic references
Avigad & Sass 1997a / Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals
(796 & 837)
Leichty E et al 1988a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, volume VIII: Tablets from Sippar 3
(p.367)
Layard A H 1853a / Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert
(155 middle and right-hand "Phoenician seals")
Herbordt S 1992 / Neuassyrische Glyptik des 8.-7. Jh.v.Chr.
(122)
Levy M A 1857a / Phonizische Studien II
(13)
Levy M A 1869 / Siegel und Gemmen
(13)
CIS II/I / Inscriptiones Aramaicas continens
(52)
Galling K 1941 / Beschriftete Bildsiegel des ersten Jahrhundreds v.Chr.vornehmilch aus Syrien und Palestina
(62)
Barnett 1967a / Layard's Nimrud bronzes and their inscriptions
(5*-6*)
Vattioni F 1971 / I sigilli le monete e gli avori aramaici
(25)
Location
Not on display
Condition
Fair; incomplete; partially repaired; cracked; abraded; deposit.
Subjects
symbol
insect
planet/constellation
Acquisition name
From:
Sir Austen Henry Layard
Acquisition date
1851
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
84545
Registration number
1851,0902.63