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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 9-1952, 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 9-1951, described as Cylindrical bead.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1954, described as Bead (seal) [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Chalcedony with opaque bands. Motif: Sphinx, couchant to the right wearing fluted headdress. Around rim with Pahlavi inscription. According to D. Flattery, this is an inscription in Middle Persian: hwmyk: Homik (a personal name of the deity Hom.) Old Persian haoma, Av. haoma, Indic. soma. References: Bivar, A.D.H. 1969. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic seals in the British Museum, Stamp Seals II. London: Published for The Trustees of the British Museum by the British Museum Press. Seal E/h 3-7]
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 9-5243, described as Cylinder seal: veined white stone, seated human holding bovine in leash, winged geometrical figure on bull's back. Babylonian [Babylonian crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Akkadian] [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: 23.5 x 13 mm. Seated deity holds cord linked with nose of kneeling bull which carries a winged gate on its back. In field: crescent over diety's extended hands; plant in front of bull. Limestone or possible lithified tooth]

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