Cylinder seal

Museum number:
9-5253
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090005253
Alternate number:
49 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1173
Description:
Cylinder seal: small gray stone, guilloche between vertical bars. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Three "eye" lozenges divided by plant ferns. Fine grained stone, grayish-black. Jemdat Nasr]
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Jemdet Nasr (ca. 3100–2900 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Kohlberg
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1955
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 14.5 millimeters and width 12 millimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5253, described as Cylinder seal: small gray stone, guilloche between vertical bars. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Three "eye" lozenges divided by plant ferns. Fine grained stone, grayish-black. Jemdat Nasr]Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5253, described as Cylinder seal: small gray stone, guilloche between vertical bars. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Three "eye" lozenges divided by plant ferns. Fine grained stone, grayish-black. Jemdat Nasr]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5253, described as Cylinder seal: small gray stone, guilloche between vertical bars. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Three "eye" lozenges divided by plant ferns. Fine grained stone, grayish-black. Jemdat Nasr]

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