Seal

Museum number:
9-1936
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090001936
Accession number:
Acc.649
Description:
Steatite [Handwritten on card: black], cylinder bead, engraved figures. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: surface worn; slightly concave. Contest frieze. From left: Lion attacked by two nude heroes, bull grasped by nude hero. Jade and serpentine Ur III; References: Boehmer, von Rainer Michael. 1965. Die Entwicklung der Glyptik während der Akkad-Zeit. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter., Tafel 5. no. 47] [Handwritten on card: 2 nude heroes combatting lion; 1 nude hero combatting bull (?); concave shape to stone; stone cracking in several places, Akkadian style. References: cf. Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, #581, 602, 663, 671.]
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Akkadian
Collector:
Henry Ludwig Frederick Lutz
Collection date:
before 1930
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Cylinder seals
Accession date:
1930
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 25 millimeters and diameter 16 millimeters
Loans:
S1976-1977 #72: Near Eastern Studies Department, UC Berkeley (April 22, 1977–April 29, 1977)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-1936, described as Steatite [Handwritten on card: black], cylinder bead, engraved figures. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: surface worn; slightly concave. Contest frieze. From left: Lion attacked by two nude heroes, bull grasped by nude hero. Jade and serpentine Ur III; References: Boehmer, von Rainer Michael. 1965. Die Entwicklung der Glyptik während der Akkad-Zeit. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter., Tafel 5. no. 47] [Handwritten on card: 2 nude heroes combatting lion; 1 nude hero combatting bull (?); concave shape to stone; stone cracking in several places, Akkadian style. References: cf. Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, #581, 602, 663, 671.]Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-1936, described as Steatite [Handwritten on card: black], cylinder bead, engraved figures. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: surface worn; slightly concave. Contest frieze. From left: Lion attacked by two nude heroes, bull grasped by nude hero. Jade and serpentine Ur III; References: Boehmer, von Rainer Michael. 1965. Die Entwicklung der Glyptik während der Akkad-Zeit. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter., Tafel 5. no. 47] [Handwritten on card: 2 nude heroes combatting lion; 1 nude hero combatting bull (?); concave shape to stone; stone cracking in several places, Akkadian style. References: cf. Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, #581, 602, 663, 671.]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1936, described as Steatite [Handwritten on card: black], cylinder bead, engraved figures. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: surface worn; slightly concave. Contest frieze. From left: Lion attacked by two nude heroes, bull grasped by nude hero. Jade and serpentine Ur III; References: Boehmer, von Rainer Michael. 1965. Die Entwicklung der Glyptik während der Akkad-Zeit. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter., Tafel 5. no. 47] [Handwritten on card: 2 nude heroes combatting lion; 1 nude hero combatting bull (?); concave shape to stone; stone cracking in several places, Akkadian style. References: cf. Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, #581, 602, 663, 671.]

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