Stamp Seal

Object Number:

32-40-308

Current Location:

Collections storage

Provenience:

Iraq
Ur

Period:

Archaic

Date Made:

3999-3000 BC

Early Date:

-3999

Late Date:

-3000

Section:

Near Eastern

Materials:

Calcite

Technique:

Drilled

Iconography:

Lion Head

Description:

white. profile of lion's head with design drill cut on back. pierced. UE IV: one of two zoomorphic seals of white calcite (originally painted red) in the form of lion's heads; pierced for suspension; the under side crudely engraved (mostly with the drill-point) with animal figures. the other is in Baghdad, B.11109. UE X: dots and lines representing animals and jars (?) on the flat base of a seal carved in the likeness of a lion's head on the convex side. The semi-round relief is pierced vertically. White calcite seal originally painted red.

Length:

4.5cm

Width:

3.5cm

Depth:

1.4cm

Credit Line:

Joint British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq

Other Number:

U.17835a	-	Field No SF
UE X: 22	-	Other Number

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