Seal

Museum number:
9-1940
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.649
Description:
Steatite cylinder bead, engraved figures [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Ur III, Cylinder seal, rather worn. Black serpentine. Ritual scene - worshipper being led by minor goddess toward enthroned goddess; crescent in field. Two columns of inscriptions: ta-ab-ti-tum Tabtitum dumu.mi i-Ku-nu-um daughter of Ikunum References: Porada, Edith. (ed) 1948. Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in North American collections, pls. XLIII, XLIV].
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Akkadian
Collector:
Henry Ludwig Frederick Lutz
Collection date:
before 1930
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Cylinder seals
Accession date:
1930
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
diameter 12 millimeters and length 25 millimeters
Loans:
S1976-1977 #72: Near Eastern Studies Department, UC Berkeley (April 22, 1977–April 29, 1977)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-1940, described as Steatite cylinder bead, engraved figures [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Ur III, Cylinder seal, rather worn. Black serpentine. Ritual scene - worshipper being led by minor goddess toward enthroned goddess; crescent in field. Two columns of inscriptions: ta-ab-ti-tum Tabtitum dumu.mi i-Ku-nu-um daughter of Ikunum References: Porada, Edith. (ed) 1948. Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in North American collections, pls. XLIII, XLIV].Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-1940, described as Steatite cylinder bead, engraved figures [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Ur III, Cylinder seal, rather worn. Black serpentine. Ritual scene - worshipper being led by minor goddess toward enthroned goddess; crescent in field. Two columns of inscriptions: ta-ab-ti-tum Tabtitum dumu.mi i-Ku-nu-um daughter of Ikunum References: Porada, Edith. (ed) 1948. Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in North American collections, pls. XLIII, XLIV].
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1940, described as Steatite cylinder bead, engraved figures [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Ur III, Cylinder seal, rather worn. Black serpentine. Ritual scene - worshipper being led by minor goddess toward enthroned goddess; crescent in field. Two columns of inscriptions: ta-ab-ti-tum Tabtitum dumu.mi i-Ku-nu-um daughter of Ikunum References: Porada, Edith. (ed) 1948. Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in North American collections, pls. XLIII, XLIV].

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