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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]
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5214, described as Cylinder seal: mottled gray stone [mottled gray stone - crossed out on card; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: impure limestone], lions attacking horned animals, one human, Babylonian. Photo: 13-5579-80 [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: contest frieze. Nude hero attacking an animal which is assailing another animal engaged in combat with one of two overlapped lions. The second lion is attacking a third animal. Unfinished scorpion in field by man's right shoulder] [Handwritten on card: impure limestone, stained. Worn, chipped at edges. Nude hero attacks animals which assails animal attacked by one of two crossed lions. Second lion attacks animals. Leaf (?) and looped rope (snake?) behind hero; Style: ED III. References: Frankfort, H. 1939. Cylinder seals. A documentary Essay on the Art and Religion of the Ancient Near East. London: Macmillan and Co., pl. XII.C - animals (note parallel - fake or copy?), XII.A - male figure, XV.G - plant]
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5233, described as Cylinder seal: very small. Three horizontal lines with slant at intervals. [slant at intervals crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: bearing slanting parallel lines]. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Serpentine, Jemdet Nasr]
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5240, described as Cylinder seal: long stone with horizontal wavy line pattern. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: 29 x12 mm. Five parallel undulating lines]
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5265, described as End of hone carved animal head. Whetstone (?). One end broken and missing. Terminal in form of lioness head. Pierced for suspension. Stone, fore ground sedimentary, black.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5230, described as Ring bezel, male figure, carnelian. Octagon shape. Weight 0.3883 grams. Babylonian [Crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Sasanian, fourth century AD] [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Condition- Chip on reverse. Motif: Standing nude male holding an object in each hand; Sasanian, fourth century AD; References: Bivar, A.D.H. 1969. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic seals in the British Museum, Stamp Seals II. London: Published for The Trustees of the British Museum by the British Museum Press., seal CA 1]
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5245, described as Cylinder seal: stone, seated goddess with demon behind with mother-Goddess introducing worshipper. Babylonian [Babylonian crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Ur III] [Handwritten on card: black chert, worn, 20.5 x 10 mm. Ritual scene: worshipper led by goddess to enthroned goddess. Bird (?) in field. Terminal: lion-griffin. Style: UrIII] [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Cylinder seal. Surface worn. 20.5 x 10.5 mm. Ritual scene: Worshipper led by minor deity toward enthroned deity. Lion griffin behind seated diety. In field: unidentified object between deities. Chert, black]
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1938, described as Steatite cylinder bead, engraved figures. [Handwritten on card: Condition - badly worn.] [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Ritual scene - Worshipper is lead by minor deity to enthroned deity holding an object in the hand. In the field between the two standing figures is a bird; between the two deities is a crescent. Horned serpent behind seated deity. Blank area, probably once containing an inscription behind the snake; Ur III] (See catalogue card for additional written information) [Handwritten on card: References - cf. Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, #768 (crowns - UrIII/Isin-Larsa); 669 (Akkadian?)]
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1928, described as cylinder, Ur III presentation scene inscribed with name, Billaya Cataloq card: Clay cylinder seal, Ur, 3rd Dynasty (ca. 2,000 B.C.). Ritual scene. Worshipper lead by minor deity towards an enthroned deity. In the field a scorpion between the 2 standing figures; a bird and crescent between the 2 dieties. Behind the seated deity an encasing containing a minor deity between two columns of inscription. A presentation scene. Seated god receives worshipper led into his presence by his patron diety. Another god (figure on far left) is inside his shrine. Transcription/Translation (see catalogue card for correct accents on translation): Bil - la - a - a Bilaya Nu - úr - ì- lí son of Nur - ili cf. Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, #766 (Isin Larsa), 782, 890 (Ur III/Isin Larsa)
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1946, described as Cylindrical bead. Ritual scene. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: From left: vertical line behind a seated figure holding flail (?) in right hand and left hand raised facing figure with clasped hand; star in field between two figures. To the right of these figures is a scene with seated diety holding a cup in right hand. Facing him is a worshipper pouring libations from a cup held in his right hand over an altar (?); his left hand is raised to his mouth. A crescent in field between these two figures. Lapis lazuli, Akkadian] Negative and positive impressions made by R.F. Heizer, Oct 1950, Photo and negative of positive impression, 15-14200, 13-2490.

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