Object class: Fasteners / Collector: Alfred Kohlberg / Culture or time period: Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe) - 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]