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Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5215, described as Cylinder seal: large white stone [white stone crossed out; handwritten on card: alabaster], crude cross on one side. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Surface eroded, chips along edges, worn. Central shrine (?) flanked by two horned animals on each side. Drillings in the field. Jemdet Nasr] [Handwritten on card: Condition - badly worn and pitted alabaster (partly erased), drill work not completed. Two registers of two each animals walk toward building (byre door?). Four drillings in field between register of animals. "Byre door scene" animals in two registers; Jemdet Nasr. References: nearly identical to example in Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, Oriental Institute Publications, 72. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, #816 (Jemdet Nasr - T. Agral) cf. #825 & #829 for type of byre/shrine (additional written information crossed out on card)]

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