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bezel
Object Type
bezel
Museum number
119821
Description
Almandine ring bezel; engraved with male figure (Daniel?) with raised hands between two lions, which do obeisance (?) with heads downward (Daniel in the lions' den, suggests Christian ownership).
Cultures/periods
Early Sasanian
Production date
4thC
Production place
Made in:
Asia
Materials
almandine
Type series
Bezel D
Technique
engraved
Dimensions
Length:
1.30 centimetres
Width:
1.20 centimetres
Curator's comments
Compare style with that of seal published by A.Ya. Borisov & V.G. Lukonin, 'Sasanidskii gemmy. Katalog sobraniya gosudarstvennogo ermitazha' (St Petersburg 1962), cat.189.
Bibliographic references
Segal J B 1967a / A Syriac Seal Inscription
(p.14, pl.IVb)
Bivar A D H 1969a / Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Stamp Seals II: The Sassanian Dynasty
(CG 8, p.67, pl.8)
(cf. BE 1)
Göbl R 1973a / Der sasanidische Siegelkanon
(no.2d, taf.2)
Lerner J A 1977 / Christian Seals of the Sasanian Period
(no.58, p.39, pl.VI, fig.38)
Friedenberg D M 2009a / Sasanian Jewry and Its Culture. A Lexicon of Jewish and Related Seals
(cat.52, p.58)
Location
On display
(G52/dc7)
Exhibition history
Exhibited: G52/IRAN/19, from official opening 17/11/95-5/12/2005. G49/IRAN, case 19, 16 Jun-23 Dec 1994.
Subjects
wild cat/big cat
old testament
(?)
Associated names
Representation of:
Daniel
(?)
Acquisition notes
This collection number (1967,0220) is an arbitary date number applied to all seals in the Bivar catalogue of Sasanian stamp seals (Bivar A D H 1969a) whose original date number was then unknown but the negative number suggests that it is a 19th century acquisition.
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
119821
Registration number
1967,0220.368