stamp-seal(?);
pendant(?)
- Museum number
- 104461
- Description
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Mottled black and green-grey steatite stamp-seal or pendant in form of rectangular block with perforated lug at the top; engraved designs on base and four longest sides: on base - winged griffin or sphinx (with hawk head) wearing Egyptian double crown; on one side - of hawk, seated on a sign with royal Egyptian flail and double crown, in field, a tree?; on another side - Hathor head, few or no traces of face, below a lotus flower; on another side - bearded figure (Bes?) in long dress holding two stems of flowers; on another side - lion seated roaring before a flower, behind a lattice-patterned triangle.
- Production date
- 750BC-475BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.375 inches
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Width: 0.75 inches
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Depth: 0.9375 inches
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Additional bibliography: E. Gubal, ''Syro-Cypriote' cubical stamps: The Phoenician connection', in E. Lipinski (ed.), Studia Phoenicia V. Phoenicia and the Eastern Mediterranean in the first millennium B.C., (1987), pp. 217-218 & fig. 14; also Culican, Levant IX (1977), pl. XVI B.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1912
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 104461
- Registration number
- 1912,0228.1