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Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1951, described as Cylindrical bead.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1952, described as Cylindrical bead [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Cylinder chipped at edge. Cut style. Two griffins; star in field. Neo-Assyrian]
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 9-1953, described as Cylindrical bead. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Cylinder seal. Cut style. Lion-griffin attacking horned animal. Star in the background. Neo-Assyrian. References: Porada, Edith. (ed) 1948. Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in North American collections, nos. 741 and 742]
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-2262, described as Cylinder seal; iron ore. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Hematite. Cylinder broken at one edge. Linear style with drillings. Four figures, two facing each other creating the major scene. The right figure has right leg forward (Shamash), left figure facing him carries a horned animal in offering. Drilled rosette in field between these figures. Behind Shamash a figure holds a scimitar in one hand, a crescent staff in the other. Faces fourth figure. Very late Old Babylonian. References: Frankfort, H. 1939. Cylinder seals, London, pl. XXX, c-f] Typed remarks: original label: "Seal cylinder of meteoric stone engraved with figures of four standing priests or deities. Found in Central Babylonia. Comes from 200 BC or earlier. Used by scribes for sealing tablets. Very rare
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1937, described as Steatite cylinder bead, engraved figures. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Ur III, Rital scene; linear style; suppliant goddess behind figure who pours libation before seated deity (who has a highly stylized head. Three columns of inscription: ur!? - Kur - gal!? Urkugal (?) aga - us Ukus-official dumu lu! - sa6 son of Lusa] see catalogue card for additional handwritten information. References: for the peg-head (Old Babylonian) see Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, #936; 952 (Isin-Larsa), 987 (for theme - Akkadian), 742, 743 (parallel for dress - Isin-Larsa).
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5266, described as Black stone amulet, engraved on base, may be a seal. CHECK

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