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Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17391, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17451, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17408, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17436, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17430, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17392, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17434, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17356, described as Ring seal. Quartz, agate. Male figure, standing. Figure is in right profile standing or walking, beardless and the hair is bound with a fillet that may have a cross tie and he wears a girded coat. One vertical and three horizontal bars appear behind the figure. These sticks could represent the Zoroastrian barsom. In this case the figure raises ritual barsom sticks before him with a transverse bar crossing near the top. Color: white to translucent honey banding. Condition: carved surface some what smoothed from wearing without destruction. Diagonal cut across head and face occurred over original carving.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17481, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17375, described as Stamp seal. Quartz: agate. Lioness (or tiger ?) in right profile, standing. Three branched plain field overhead. Left front paw is visible behind front right left paw. Long feline tail curled upward, rounded feline type ears. In reference to identity of image, the suggestion of lioness or tiger originated out of a conversation with and first hand visual examination of seal and impression by Dr. Phillippe Gignoux on May 23, 1988. Condition: some chipping in translucent band at lower edge of carved surface. Back of sphere has rounded indentation that has carved look. Another hole carved or chipped on white banding.

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