Object name: Cylinder seal / Culture or time period: Early Dynastic III (ca. 2700–2340 BC) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5260, described as Cylinder seal: half, white stone, Gilgamesh [Gilgamesh cross out on card], shows method of engraving by drilling. Babylonian [Babylonian crossed out on card]. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Limestone. Split vertically; one half now lost. 28 x 21 mm. From left: contest freize: Leopard attacking a stag which is also being assailed by a lion. The lion crosses over the figure of a human-headed bull. ED III].

Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5212, described as Cylinder seal, white shell [shell crossed out; handwritten on card: calemous stone]: Lions attacking horned animals, one human. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Cylinder seal, bone. Condition: surface damaged, one chip on upper edge (1x1cm irregular). Areas of iron oxide stain. Early Dynastic III. Contest scene: skirted hero holds horned animals, each stylized in a different manner. These animals have their heads turned backward and each is attacked by a lion. Between the two lions is a rampant horned animal.] [Handwritten on card: References - cf. Porada, Edith. (ed) 1948. Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in North American collections I. The collection of the Pierpont-Morgan Library, The Bollingen Series XIV. Washington: Pantheon. #82, vol. 1, pg 12; Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, Oriental Institute Publications, 72. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, #255, #470 & 875 for treatment of animals, ED II]

Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5256, described as Cylinder seal: hematite [hematite crossed out on card; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: lapis lazuli and chert], Gilgamesh [Gilgamesh cross out on card], human between two horned animals with lion attacking left. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: 22 x 10 mm. Chip on upper edge. Contest freize: Hero clasping two antelopes, one of which is being attacked by a lion. Upside down serpent bites right foot of the lion, ED III]

Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5261, described as Cylinder seal: half, white stone [white stone crossed out on card; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: limestone], shows very early linear seal cutting. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Limestone. Broken vertically in antiquity (interior surface worn); less than one-half of seal remaining. 30 x 14 mm. From left: bearded figure with braided (?) hair, full figure with head turned to the left, carrying triangular object on head which is supported by the right hand. A tassel hangs from his waist. A human-headed bull approaches the first figure with right hand raised and left hand holding a rope. A large potted plant between the two figures. ED III.]