Bead (seal) [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Chalcedony with opaque bands. Motif: Sphinx, couchant to the right wearing fluted headdress. Around rim with Pahlavi inscription. According to D. Flattery, this is an inscription in Middle Persian: hwmyk: Homik (a personal name of the deity Hom.) Old Persian haoma, Av. haoma, Indic. soma. 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 E/h 3-7]