cylinder seal

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Object Type: cylinder seal
Museum number: 138121
Description: Black mudstone cylinder seal; piece of a large, worn seal which was recut with a horizontal groove, three vertical lines and a grid of diagonal lines (criss-cross?). One of the original line borders is still visible faintly around one end. Worn and rebored.
Cultures/periods: Neo-Assyrian (?); Late Babylonian (?)
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Max von Oppenheim
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Halaf
Materials: mudstone
Technique: bored; perforated
Dimensions: Diameter: 0.75 centimetres (of perforation); Diameter: 1.65 centimetres; Height: 2.05 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Collon 2001a / Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals V: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods (394, pl.XXXIII); Hrouda B 1962a / Tell Halaf IV: Die Kleinfunde aus historischer Zeit (pp.29, 34, pl.23:1)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Incomplete; worn.
Associated names: Emblem of: Adad; Emblem of: Gula; Emblem of: Ea; Emblem of: Nabu; Emblem of: Marduk
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Messrs Fairclough, Dodd & Jones (?)
Acquisition date: 1920
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 138121
Registration number: 1920,1211.426

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