Seal

Museum number:
9-5232
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090005232
Alternate number:
21 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1173
Description:
Drop seal: winged lion, "bullet" shaped cone. Weight 1.9560 grams. Babylonian [crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Sasanian, fourth century AD]. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Stamp seal, conoid shaped. Motif: griffin to the right. Sasanian, fourth century AD. 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. BG 1]
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Sasanian (ca. 224–641 AD)
Collector:
Alfred Kohlberg
Materials:
Glass (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Seals (artifacts)
Accession date:
1955
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 11.8 millimeters, diameter 12.2 millimeters, and weight 2 grams
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-5232, described as Drop seal: winged lion, "bullet" shaped cone. Weight 1.9560 grams. Babylonian [crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Sasanian, fourth century AD]. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Stamp seal, conoid shaped. Motif: griffin to the right. Sasanian, fourth century AD. 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. BG 1]Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-5232, described as Drop seal: winged lion, "bullet" shaped cone. Weight 1.9560 grams. Babylonian [crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Sasanian, fourth century AD]. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Stamp seal, conoid shaped. Motif: griffin to the right. Sasanian, fourth century AD. 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. BG 1]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5232, described as Drop seal: winged lion, "bullet" shaped cone. Weight 1.9560 grams. Babylonian [crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Sasanian, fourth century AD]. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Stamp seal, conoid shaped. Motif: griffin to the right. Sasanian, fourth century AD. 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. BG 1]

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