cylinder seal
- Museum number
- 102505
- Description
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Brecciated and veined, dark red, brown, white and cream quartz, jasper and chalcedony cylinder seal. A long-robed god stands facing left with one hand raised before a cross made of four slender ovals; above the cross is a soaring bird; behind his head is a Kassite cross. In the lower field are a seated monkey facing right, an ear of grain, and a flower placed horizontally. There are six lines of cuneiform separated by vertical lines. Line borders top and bottom.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.90 centimetres
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Height: 5.30 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Matthews (p. 138) categories this seal as Second Kassite on the basis of the shape of the wings (p. 61 n. 66; see also (BM 22433), (BM 89214) referred to above in connection with the inscription), and believes it is “relatively early” due to the “restrained design centred on a single human, which [is] not far removed from First Kassite” (p. 66 n. 87). He cites the flower as a close parallel for that on Second Kassite seal (BM 134766).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Edges chipped and weathered faults in the stone.
- Acquisition date
- 1908
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 102505
- Registration number
- 1908,0411.13
