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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 9-5248, 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 9-5242, described as Cylinder seal: crystal presentation scene, inscription erased before burial. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: 30 x 16 mm. Worn. Starting from left: suppliant goddess behind worshipper holding an animal (goat?) in front of a deity with one foot forward. Remains of encasing which probably contained an inscription. Chalcedony. Old Babylonian]
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 9-5234, described as Cylinder seal: milky crystal, two bovines grazing, three other animals, bird, and a human in the field [all crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: From left: Antithetical bulls on either side of plant; above each bull an unidentified animal with a long tail; above animal on the left, a motif consisting of three diamond shapes; above animal on right antelope couchant with head turned back. To the right a human figure with staff in the right hand, holding an object in the left hand; girdle around the waist with a dagger (?) suspended. Below the figure a stool. Above the figure a large bird, possibly a griffin vulture, with outstretched wings. References: Jequier, G. "Cachets et cylindres archaiques" Memoires de la delegation archeologique en Iran, vol. 8, Paris, 1905, pl. 1. figure 22 - for diamond motif; figure 55 - for stylization of the man] Babylonian [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Prehistoric (archaic) period, provincial provenance, most probably southern Iran. Style similar to that found on cylinder seals from the archaic period at Susa] [Handwritten on card: Alabaster? Style: ED III. Looks suspicious ......fake? Center: Two bovris face plant, each animal (dog?) standing on its back, small horned animal above right, three.....[pointed crossed out ] star (?) above and left. herdsman (?) with a stick in hand faces to left between backs of two bovris, bird above herdman - for bird see Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, Oriental Institute Publications, 72. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, #293, see # 684 for animals around tree (Akkadian), #219 (Protoliterate or ED I,............) #33, #841, flower #32 - not number of petals but angularity, #882, a bird - not very like (EDI), #905, male figure, not very like; Porada, Edith. (ed) 1948. Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in North American collections, #97-102].
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 9-5235, 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 9-5233, 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 9-5247, described as Cylinder seal: hematite [hematite crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: jasper or chert, brownish black ], inscribed Shamash and Ai, three full and one half figures with moon, wedge and bee in field. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Old Babylonian. 19.5 x 12 mm. From left to right: Standing figure; nude female dwarf; suppliant figure facing diety with mace (?). In field sun and crescent over nude female; spade Marduk in front of god; "v" shaped symbol over hand of suppliant figure. Inscription: d samas d A-a Samas Aja]

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