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cylinder seal
Object Type
cylinder seal
Museum number
124406
Description
Short and thick, dark red talc cylinder seal; row of birds and animals facing right; badly worn.
Cultures/periods
Jemdet Nasr
Production place
Made in:
Asia
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Sir Leonard Woolley
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Ur (historic - city)
Materials
talc
Dimensions
Diameter:
11 millimetres
Height:
13 millimetres
Bibliographic references
Wiseman 1962a / Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals I: Uruk - Early Dynastic Periods
(p.7, pl.6e)
Legrain & Woolley 1951a / Seal Cylinders
(73)
Woolley 1956a / The early periods
(p.191)
Delaporte L 1920-1923 / Catalogue des cylindres sceaux et pierres gravees de style oriental
(S.273, pl.25.1)
(cf:)
Frankfort H 1955 / Stratified Cylinder Seals from the Diyala Region
(843)
(cf:)
Location
Not on display
Condition
Fair / poor; badly worn.
Subjects
bird
Acquisition name
Division of Finds:
Department of Antiquities of Iraq
Acquisition date
1933
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
124406
Registration number
1933,1013.82
Additional IDs
Excavation/small finds number:
U.18463
(excavation number)