cylinder seal
- Museum number
- 104853
- Description
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Cylinder seal; cream lime plaster worked over a grey limestone core; the field is covered with quadrupeds facing right; one small couchant quadruped above two leaping animals with long, curved, notched horns; one of the leaping animals looks back. One long-bodied quadruped below and possibly a second shorter one, now obscured by a chip. Two horizontal lines in the upper field do not seem to be part of the animals. Line border at the top; bottom broken. The seal appears to have been damaged by heating, probably during cremation: one end has broken away and some of the surviving surfaces are misshapen. Badly chipped and lower end missing.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1 centimetres
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Height: 2.30 centimetres (max)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Incomplete; the seal appears to have been damaged by heating, probably during cremation: one end has broken away and some of the surviving surfaces are misshapen. Badly chipped and lower end missing.
- Acquisition date
- 1912
- Acquisition notes
- Sent from Carchemish by Woolley.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 104853
- Registration number
- 1912,0711.1
