Donor: Alfred Kohlberg / Culture or time period: Jemdet Nasr (ca. 3100–2900 BC) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Button seal, accession number 9-5211, described as Large button seal, black stone, five animals, Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Round with conical top. Perforated laterally. Five animals, one horned, with other four possibly horned. Three lines, possibly crescents in field. Jemdat Nasr. Fine grained, sedimentary gray stone. References: Amiet, Pierre, 1972. Glyptique susienne des origines a` l'e´poque des Perses ache´me´nides: cachets, sceaux-cylindres et empreintes antiques de´couverts a` Suse de 1913 a` 1967. Paris: P. Guethner, vol. II, 292; see also Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection]

Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5250, described as Cylinder seal: coral, with fishes in three registers caught in nets. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Jemdet Nasr. 25 x 12 mm. Three columns of superimposed fish; each column divided by a ladder design. Pink marble]

Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5249, described as Cylinder seal: small reddish stone, with three horned animals in file. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: 16.5 x 16 mm. Three parading horned animals; three fish in field. Pink marble. Buchanan, Briggs. 1966. Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum I. Cylinder Seals. Oxford: Clarendon P., pl. 4, 30-32]

Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5251, described as Cylinder seal: yellowish, byre door with animal. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Jemdet Nasr. 13 x 10 mm. Goat before a shrine. Buff with pink marble]

Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5253, described as Cylinder seal: small gray stone, guilloche between vertical bars. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Three "eye" lozenges divided by plant ferns. Fine grained stone, grayish-black. Jemdat Nasr]

Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5237, described as Cylinder seal: long gray stone with bovine in upper register and another animal in lower register, two crosses in field. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Felsite, yellowish or gray. A canine (?) walking right; above a modeled young bovine. In field three star-like designs which wer popular in this period. Jemdet Nasr]

Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5241, described as Cylinder seal: coral [coral crossed out], trees and birds (or reeds and fishes?). [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: 25 x 8mm. Bird, wings stretching upwards; two fish in field. Pink marble or dolomite. Jemdet Nasr]

Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5215, described as Cylinder seal: large white stone [white stone crossed out; handwritten on card: alabaster], crude cross on one side. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Surface eroded, chips along edges, worn. Central shrine (?) flanked by two horned animals on each side. Drillings in the field. Jemdet Nasr] [Handwritten on card: Condition - badly worn and pitted alabaster (partly erased), drill work not completed. Two registers of two each animals walk toward building (byre door?). Four drillings in field between register of animals. "Byre door scene" animals in two registers; Jemdet Nasr. References: nearly identical to example in Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, Oriental Institute Publications, 72. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, #816 (Jemdet Nasr - T. Agral) cf. #825 & #829 for type of byre/shrine (additional written information crossed out on card)]

Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5252, described as Cylinder seal: long black stone [long black stone crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: metamorphic stone with serpentine], double register, upper, aquatic birds [aquatic birds crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: swimming ducks] on water in file, lower, scorpions. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card: metamorphic stone with serpentine, greenish black. 31.5 x 8 mm. Three parallel lines in middle represents water. Below register of two scorpions or crayfish (?) above register of two birds swimming. Style: Jemdet Nasr. References: Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, #192, #848 for scorpion - Jemdat Nasr, #982 for birds - Akkadian] [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Akkadian/post-Akkadian. 31 x 8.5mm. References: Buchanan, Briggs. 1981. Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian collection, New Haven, no. 561 & no. 492; Legrain, L. 1929. Gem cutters in ancient Ur, Philadelphia, Pa: The Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (Sept-Dec.) ]

Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5248, described as Cylinder seal: small greenish crystal, with fishes (?) in three registers. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Condition - One chip at edge, worn. 22 x 13 mm. Three rows of short lines. Limestone. Jemdet Nasr]