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Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5236, described as Cylinder seal: long reddish gray limestone [long reddish gray limestone crossed out on card; handwritten on card: chert or jasper, ochre] with rampant animal between trees. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card: badly worn, rampant animal facing tree, flanked by trees. In field: star (?), lozenge. Style: trans Mid Assyrian to Neo - Assyrian. References: Buchanan, Briggs. 1966. Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum I. Cylinder Seals. Oxford: Clarendon P., #572] [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Middle Assyrian. Cylinder seal. Well worn. From left: an animal standing on its hind legs with its head turned back; a rapacious bird with outstretched wings in vertical position; a tree. In field: a star and lozenge ]
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 9-5235, described as Cylinder seal: long stratified limestone, triple register showing bull, ram, dog, gazelle, eagle. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: calcite. At lower area caprid followed by a bovine; dog (?) above the bovine's back; a rapacious bird above the canine. To left between bird and canine, a grazing bovine. The silhoutted flat animal form suggests that this piece originated in a peripheral region. Prehistoric (archaic) period, provincial provenance, most probably southern Iran. Style similar to that found on cylinder seals of the archaic period from Susa. References: Jequier, G. "Cachets et cylindres archaiques" Memoires de la delegation archeologique en Iran, vol. 8, Paris, 1905, pl. 1. figure 20 - for stylization of bull's heads and horns (small bulls in fig. 20); figure 16 for stylization of canine's tail]
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5269, described as Mottled stone, engraved, coil of rope (?). [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Pink marble. Stamp seal, drilled horizontally for suspension; hemispherical shape. 28.5 x 23 mm. Drilled spiral motif on bottom side. Proto-literate. Buchanan, Briggs. 1981. Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection. New Haven, no 42 a,b]
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5270, described as Stamp: reddish stone, engraved, six dots. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Stamp seal. 23 x 21 x 9.5 mm. Perforated horizontally; round with concave top. Six drilled areas on the flat surface, brick red marble. Proto-literate. References: Amiet, Pierre, 1972. Glyptique Susienne, Paris. vol. II, pl. 55].
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]

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