cylinder seal

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Object Type
Museum number: 119306
Description: Streaked pale yellow-brown steatite or calcite cylinder seal with blue-grey patches; two goats; in field - 'Maltese' cross, circled dots.
Cultures/periods: Jemdet Nasr; Proto-Elamite
Production date: 3100BC-3000BC (?)
Production place: Made in: Mesopotamia (?)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Warka (?)
Materials: steatite (?); calcite (?)
Dimensions: Diameter: 1.90 centimetres; Height: 6.20 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Barnett & Wiseman 1960a / Fifty masterpieces of Ancient Near Eastern Art (p.83, no.37); Wiseman 1962a / Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals I: Uruk - Early Dynastic Periods (p.8, pl.7e); Strommenger E & Hirmer M 1962a / Funf Jahrtausende Mesopotamien (pl.35)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: Case I.L., 4th row Room of Writing, Seals
Subjects: mammal; cross
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1928
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 119306
Registration number: 1928,0211.9

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