Button seal

Museum number:
9-5211
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090005211
Alternate number:
7 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1173
Description:
Large button seal, black stone, five animals, Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Round with conical top. Perforated laterally. Five animals, one horned, with other four possibly horned. Three lines, possibly crescents in field. Jemdat Nasr. Fine grained, sedimentary gray stone. References: Amiet, Pierre, 1972. Glyptique susienne des origines a` l'e´poque des Perses ache´me´nides: cachets, sceaux-cylindres et empreintes antiques de´couverts a` Suse de 1913 a` 1967. Paris: P. Guethner, vol. II, 292; see also Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection]
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Jemdet Nasr (ca. 3100–2900 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Kohlberg
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Buttons (fasteners)
Accession date:
1955
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 54 millimeters, height 21 millimeters, and width 53 millimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Button seal, accession number 9-5211, described as Large button seal, black stone, five animals, Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Round with conical top. Perforated laterally. Five animals, one horned, with other four possibly horned. Three lines, possibly crescents in field. Jemdat Nasr. Fine grained, sedimentary gray stone. References: Amiet, Pierre, 1972. Glyptique susienne des origines a` l'e´poque des Perses ache´me´nides: cachets, sceaux-cylindres et empreintes antiques de´couverts a` Suse de 1913 a` 1967. Paris: P. Guethner, vol. II, 292; see also Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection]Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Button seal, accession number 9-5211, described as Large button seal, black stone, five animals, Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Round with conical top. Perforated laterally. Five animals, one horned, with other four possibly horned. Three lines, possibly crescents in field. Jemdat Nasr. Fine grained, sedimentary gray stone. References: Amiet, Pierre, 1972. Glyptique susienne des origines a` l'e´poque des Perses ache´me´nides: cachets, sceaux-cylindres et empreintes antiques de´couverts a` Suse de 1913 a` 1967. Paris: P. Guethner, vol. II, 292; see also Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Button seal, accession number 9-5211, described as Large button seal, black stone, five animals, Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Round with conical top. Perforated laterally. Five animals, one horned, with other four possibly horned. Three lines, possibly crescents in field. Jemdat Nasr. Fine grained, sedimentary gray stone. References: Amiet, Pierre, 1972. Glyptique susienne des origines a` l'e´poque des Perses ache´me´nides: cachets, sceaux-cylindres et empreintes antiques de´couverts a` Suse de 1913 a` 1967. Paris: P. Guethner, vol. II, 292; see also Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection]

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