Seal

Museum number:
9-1941
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.649
Description:
Seal-ring front. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: stamp seal, rectangular. Female figure in posture of worship facing inscription. The garment differs distinctly from those of the Babylonian period representations of the suppliant goddess; it resembles that of the Ur III minor goddesses. Inscription: ur.ba.gara Urbagara dumu u.sa6 ga son of Ursaga Black serpentine. Akkadian. Originally catalogued as Ur III. However, according to Professor Richard Zettler from the University of Chicago, no known stamp seals with this motif are found in the Ur III period]
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Ur III (ca. 2100–2000 BC)
Collector:
Henry Ludwig Frederick Lutz
Collection date:
before 1930
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Seals (artifacts)
Accession date:
1930
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 21 millimeters and width 17 millimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Seal, accession number 9-1941, described as Seal-ring front. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: stamp seal, rectangular. Female figure in posture of worship facing inscription. The garment differs distinctly from those of the Babylonian period representations of the suppliant goddess; it resembles that of the Ur III minor goddesses. Inscription: ur.ba.gara Urbagara dumu u.sa6 ga son of Ursaga Black serpentine. Akkadian. Originally catalogued as Ur III. However, according to Professor Richard Zettler from the University of Chicago, no known stamp seals with this motif are found in the Ur III period]Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Seal, accession number 9-1941, described as Seal-ring front. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: stamp seal, rectangular. Female figure in posture of worship facing inscription. The garment differs distinctly from those of the Babylonian period representations of the suppliant goddess; it resembles that of the Ur III minor goddesses. Inscription: ur.ba.gara Urbagara dumu u.sa6 ga son of Ursaga Black serpentine. Akkadian. Originally catalogued as Ur III. However, according to Professor Richard Zettler from the University of Chicago, no known stamp seals with this motif are found in the Ur III period]Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Seal, accession number 9-1941, described as Seal-ring front. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: stamp seal, rectangular. Female figure in posture of worship facing inscription. The garment differs distinctly from those of the Babylonian period representations of the suppliant goddess; it resembles that of the Ur III minor goddesses. Inscription: ur.ba.gara Urbagara dumu u.sa6 ga son of Ursaga Black serpentine. Akkadian. Originally catalogued as Ur III. However, according to Professor Richard Zettler from the University of Chicago, no known stamp seals with this motif are found in the Ur III period]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1941, described as Seal-ring front. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: stamp seal, rectangular. Female figure in posture of worship facing inscription. The garment differs distinctly from those of the Babylonian period representations of the suppliant goddess; it resembles that of the Ur III minor goddesses. Inscription: ur.ba.gara Urbagara dumu u.sa6 ga son of Ursaga Black serpentine. Akkadian. Originally catalogued as Ur III. However, according to Professor Richard Zettler from the University of Chicago, no known stamp seals with this motif are found in the Ur III period]

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