Seal

Museum number:
9-1942
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090001942
Accession number:
Acc.649
Description:
Seal-ring front. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: stamp seal, perforated horizontally. Motif: Two mongooses or monkeys crouching on either side of a plant. Serpentine, black with ochre band. Achaemenid. References: Porada, Edith. (ed) 1948. Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in North American collections, Washington D.C., nos. 840 & 841].
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Achaemenid (547–331 BC)
Collector:
Henry Ludwig Frederick Lutz
Collection date:
before 1930
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Seals (artifacts)
Accession date:
1930
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
diameter 16 millimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-1942, described as Seal-ring front. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: stamp seal, perforated horizontally. Motif: Two mongooses or monkeys crouching on either side of a plant. Serpentine, black with ochre band. Achaemenid. References: Porada, Edith. (ed) 1948. Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in North American collections, Washington D.C., nos. 840 & 841].Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-1942, described as Seal-ring front. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: stamp seal, perforated horizontally. Motif: Two mongooses or monkeys crouching on either side of a plant. Serpentine, black with ochre band. Achaemenid. References: Porada, Edith. (ed) 1948. Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in North American collections, Washington D.C., nos. 840 & 841].
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1942, described as Seal-ring front. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: stamp seal, perforated horizontally. Motif: Two mongooses or monkeys crouching on either side of a plant. Serpentine, black with ochre band. Achaemenid. References: Porada, Edith. (ed) 1948. Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in North American collections, Washington D.C., nos. 840 & 841].

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