Seal

Museum number:
9-1954
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.649
Description:
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]
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Sasanian (ca. 224–641 AD)
Collector:
Henry Ludwig Frederick Lutz
Collection date:
before 1930
Materials:
Chalcedony
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Seals (artifacts)
Accession date:
1930
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 17 millimeters and diameter 25 millimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-1954, described as 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]Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-1954, described as 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]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1954, described as 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]

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