Cylindrical bead. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Cylinder seal. Slightly worn surface. Vertical loss from bottom extending upward. Motif formed by parallel straight and curving lines. Antithetical horned animals leaping downward; bird with outstreched wings centered above the animals; two large crescents above one of the animal's heads. Material: Fossil shell. Post-Akkadian. References: Porada, Edith.1936. Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in the North American collection of Mr. Edward T. Newell, no. 52]
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Jemdet Nasr (ca. 3100–2900 BC)
Collector:
Henry Ludwig Frederick Lutz
Collection date:
before 1930
Materials:
Faience (composite material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Cylinder seals
Accession date:
1930
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
diameter 15 millimeters and length 30 millimeters
Loans:
S1972-1973 #20: Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (UC Berkeley)/Margaret Perkins (November 6, 1972–November 7, 1972)