Seal

Museum number:
9-5233
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
22 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1173
Description:
Cylinder seal: very small. Three horizontal lines with slant at intervals. [slant at intervals crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: bearing slanting parallel lines]. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Serpentine, Jemdet Nasr]
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Jemdet Nasr (ca. 3100–2900 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Kohlberg
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Cylinder seals
Accession date:
1955
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 8 millimeters and width 7.5 millimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-5233, described as Cylinder seal: very small. Three horizontal lines with slant at intervals. [slant at intervals crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: bearing slanting parallel lines]. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Serpentine, Jemdet Nasr]Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-5233, described as Cylinder seal: very small. Three horizontal lines with slant at intervals. [slant at intervals crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: bearing slanting parallel lines]. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Serpentine, Jemdet Nasr]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5233, described as Cylinder seal: very small. Three horizontal lines with slant at intervals. [slant at intervals crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: bearing slanting parallel lines]. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Serpentine, Jemdet Nasr]

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