seal-impression; sealing

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Object Type: seal-impression; sealing
Museum number: 135621
Description: Clay seal-impression: a pellet of grey clay with the seal impression on its flat surface - hieroglyphic inscription (a name and a title) is framed by a continuous S-spiral. Most of the inscription is well preserved and there is no doubt at all about it reading. The edges are chipped, gouged and cracked.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 800 BC - 400 BC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell el-Ajjul
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 2.10 centimetres; Width: 1.40 centimetres; Depth: 0.90 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Giveon R 1985a / Egyptian scarabs from Western Asia from the collections of the British Museum (p.108, no.138); Ranke 1935 / Die ägyptischen Personennamen I: Verzeichnis der Namen (p.282,17) (inscription); Martin 1971 / Egyptian administrative and private-name seals, principally of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (p.101, no.1301) (inscription)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Fair; edges chipped, gouged and cracked.
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1971
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 135621
Registration number: 1971,1214.30

Free entry