Seal

Museum number:
9-5269
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090005269
Accession number:
Acc.1173
Description:
Mottled stone, engraved, coil of rope (?). [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Pink marble. Stamp seal, drilled horizontally for suspension; hemispherical shape. 28.5 x 23 mm. Drilled spiral motif on bottom side. Proto-literate. Buchanan, Briggs. 1981. Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection. New Haven, no 42 a,b]
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Babylonian
Collector:
Alfred Kohlberg
Materials:
Pink marble
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Seals (artifacts)
Accession date:
1955
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 28.5 millimeters and width 23 millimeters
Loans:
S1972-1973 #20: Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (UC Berkeley)/Margaret Perkins (November 6, 1972–November 7, 1972)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Seal, accession number 9-5269, described as Mottled stone, engraved, coil of rope (?). [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Pink marble. Stamp seal, drilled horizontally for suspension; hemispherical shape. 28.5 x 23 mm. Drilled spiral motif on bottom side. Proto-literate. Buchanan, Briggs. 1981. Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection. New Haven, no 42 a,b]Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Seal, accession number 9-5269, described as Mottled stone, engraved, coil of rope (?). [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Pink marble. Stamp seal, drilled horizontally for suspension; hemispherical shape. 28.5 x 23 mm. Drilled spiral motif on bottom side. Proto-literate. Buchanan, Briggs. 1981. Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection. New Haven, no 42 a,b]Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Seal, accession number 9-5269, described as Mottled stone, engraved, coil of rope (?). [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Pink marble. Stamp seal, drilled horizontally for suspension; hemispherical shape. 28.5 x 23 mm. Drilled spiral motif on bottom side. Proto-literate. Buchanan, Briggs. 1981. Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection. New Haven, no 42 a,b]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5269, described as Mottled stone, engraved, coil of rope (?). [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Pink marble. Stamp seal, drilled horizontally for suspension; hemispherical shape. 28.5 x 23 mm. Drilled spiral motif on bottom side. Proto-literate. Buchanan, Briggs. 1981. Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection. New Haven, no 42 a,b]

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