Cylinder Seal

Object Number:

B14509

Current Location:

Collections storage

Provenience:

Iraq

Period:

Archaic

Section:

Near Eastern

Materials:

Basalt

Iconography:

Animals

Description:

black PBS XIV: three registers of animals. 1. bulls, crouched antelopes, scorpion, star, and group of stars. 2. lions and star. 3. crouched antelope, flying bird and stars. Cyl. seal. basalt, 67 x 16 1/2 mm. MS. Coll. CBS Register: seal cylinder. black basalt. Archaic (Elam?)

Credit Line:

Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville

Other Number:

1416	-	Sommerville Gem Number
PBS XIV: 56	-	Other Number
29-128-1416	-	Other Number

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Tokens to Tablets: Glimpses into 6000 Years of the History of the Ancient Near East (14 Nov 1987 - Aug 2006)

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