stamp-seal

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Object Type: stamp-seal
Museum number: 126277
Description: Domed dark grey mottled serpentine(?) stamp seal; hole perforated through from side to side for suspension; deeply incised design of stylised fallow deer on base; abraded; chipped.
Cultures/periods: Late Uruk
Production date: 3500BC-3000BC
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Professor Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Brak (Syria), Grey brick stratum, South side of Eye-Temple platform.
Materials: serpentine (?)
Technique: perforated; incised
Dimensions: Height: 7.11 millimetres; Length: 22.66 millimetres; Weight: 6 grammes; Width: 22.78 millimetres
Bibliographic references: Mallowan M E L 1947a / Excavations at Brak and Chagar Bazar (pl.XIX.5-6, pp.126-127); van Buren E D 1937a / Mesopotamian fauna in the light of the monuments. Archaeological remarks upon Landsberger's "Fauna des alten Mesopotamien" (pp.40-42); Denham 2018 / Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Glyphs and Stamp Seals in the British Museum (105)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited 2015-2016 7 Dec-17 Apr, Montreal, Pointe-A-Calliere, Agatha Christie
Condition: Fair; abraded; chipped.
Subjects: mammal
Acquisition name: Division of Finds: Department of Antiquities, Syria
Acquisition date: 1938
Acquisition notes: Season 1937-1938.
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 126277
Registration number: 1938,0727.117
Additional IDs: Excavation/small finds number: F.534 (excavation number)

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