cylinder seal
- Museum number
- 102420
- Description
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Mottled, bright blue-green, pale grey-browns and white amazonite cylinder seal. A bearded king, with his hair indicated by a circle on his shoulder, wearing a circlet and a garment with ladder-patterned borders (lower part missing), holds a curved sword in his lowered right hand and faces a female suppliant with both hands raised, who also wears a circlet and ladder-bordered garment, but has her hair curling up at the back. Between them are a Kassite cross and a locust. Inscription: five lines, framed along the top
- Production date
- 15thC BC-14thC BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.20 centimetres
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Height: 2.72 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Matthews (1990, p. 86 and cf. p. 49) classifies this seal as belonging to the Central Tradition of the First Kassite style, and on p. 72 refers to his no. 1 as another example of a seal with two figures in a similar posture, but see also (BM 89853).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Chipped and worn at the bottom, repaired, with a large chip replaced with red sealing-wax.
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 102420
- Registration number
- 1906,1110.10