Seal

Museum number:
9-5231
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
20 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1173
Description:
Ring bezel, animal figure, oval shape. Weight 0.3839 grams; Babylonian. Andradite garnet: Material attribution D Swain 10/14/1977. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Motif: Hare to the right; 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 GD6, GD7]
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Sasanian (ca. 224–641 AD)
Collector:
Alfred Kohlberg
Materials:
Andradite and Garnet (mineral)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Seals (artifacts)
Accession date:
1955
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 6.5 millimeters, height 2.9 millimeters, weight 0.4 grams, and length 9.1 millimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5231, described as Ring bezel, animal figure, oval shape. Weight 0.3839 grams; Babylonian. Andradite garnet: Material attribution D Swain 10/14/1977. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Motif: Hare to the right; 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 GD6, GD7]

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