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cylinder seal
Object Type
cylinder seal
Museum number
122696
Description
Mottled brown and white-grey chalcedony cylinder seal; slightly concave sided; the area is divided into fifteen vertical columns, fourteen of which are occupied by a cuneiform inscription. The remaining column is divided by a short horizontal line into two registers: in each a bearded figure in a robe with linear borders stands facing right with one hand raised in a devotional gesture. [EP]
Cultures/periods
Kassite
Production date
1420BC-1410BC
(?)
Production place
Made in:
Mesopotamia
Materials
chalcedony
Dimensions
Diameter:
1.97 centimetres
Height:
4.18 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Brinkman 1976a / A catalogue of cuneiform sources pertaining to specific monarchs of the Kassite Dynasty
(Q.2.114)
Reade 1986a / Commerce or Conquest: Variation in the Mesopotamian Dilmun Relationship
(p.332, fig. 137)
Nayeem M A 1992a / Bahrain
(pp.376-77: fig. 1)
Hoyland R 2001a / Arabia and the Arabs: from the Bronze Age to the coming of Islam
(p.17, pl. 2)
(mis-attributed ca 15thC BC date)
British Museum 2011a / Splendours of Mesopotamia
(p.180, cat.154)
Collon 1987a / First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East
(no. 237)
Matthews, D M 1990 / Principals of Composition in Near Eastern Glyptic of the Later 2nd Millenium BC
(no. 9)
Stiehler-Alegría G 1996a / Die Kassitische Glyptik
(no. 227)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
Exhibited: 2011 28 March-26 June, Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al Saadiyat, 'Splendours of Mesopotamia'
Condition
both ends are badly chipped, probably indicating the removal of decorative gold(?) caps, probably in antiquity as they are weathered.
Subjects
devotee/worshipper
Associated names
Named in inscription:
Uballissu-Marduk
(owner of seal)
Named in inscription:
Kurigalzu
Associated places
Associated with:
Dilmun
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Ibrahim Moradoff & Sons
Acquisition date
1931
Acquisition notes
Reported to Trustees 31 March 1931.
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
122696
Registration number
1931,0415.1