Seal

Museum number:
9-1949
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090001949
Accession number:
Acc.649
Description:
Seal-ring head, dome shaped. [Additional typing on card: Round shape; weight 3.3664 grams] [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Motif: Priest standing before fire altar (?) looking to left at mountain sheep. Hematite. Sasanian, 5th c AD. References: 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 CG3]
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Middle East
Culture or time period:
Sasanian (ca. 224–641 AD)
Collector:
Henry Ludwig Frederick Lutz
Collection date:
before 1930
Materials:
Faience (composite material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Seals (artifacts)
Accession date:
1930
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 13 millimeters, weight 3.4 grams, length 12.5 millimeters, and height 9.37 millimeters
Loans:
S1972-1973 #32: University of California, Berkeley/Margaret Perkins (November 7, 1972–November 8, 1972)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Seal, accession number 9-1949, described as Seal-ring head, dome shaped. [Additional typing on card: Round shape; weight 3.3664 grams] [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Motif: Priest standing before fire altar (?) looking to left at mountain sheep. Hematite. Sasanian, 5th c AD. References: 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 CG3]Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Seal, accession number 9-1949, described as Seal-ring head, dome shaped. [Additional typing on card: Round shape; weight 3.3664 grams] [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Motif: Priest standing before fire altar (?) looking to left at mountain sheep. Hematite. Sasanian, 5th c AD. References: 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 CG3]Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Seal, accession number 9-1949, described as Seal-ring head, dome shaped. [Additional typing on card: Round shape; weight 3.3664 grams] [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Motif: Priest standing before fire altar (?) looking to left at mountain sheep. Hematite. Sasanian, 5th c AD. References: 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 CG3]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1949, described as Seal-ring head, dome shaped. [Additional typing on card: Round shape; weight 3.3664 grams] [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Motif: Priest standing before fire altar (?) looking to left at mountain sheep. Hematite. Sasanian, 5th c AD. References: 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 CG3]

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