Cylinder seal: long gray stone with bovine in upper register and another animal in lower register, two crosses in field. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Felsite, yellowish or gray. A canine (?) walking right; above a modeled young bovine. In field three star-like designs which wer popular in this period. Jemdet Nasr]
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Jemdet Nasr (ca. 3100–2900 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Kohlberg
Materials:
Felsite (weathered, yellowish grey.)
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1955
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 12 millimeters and length 45 millimeters
Loans:
S1972-1973 #20: Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (UC Berkeley)/Margaret Perkins (November 6, 1972–November 7, 1972)