Stamp Seal

1900.53.0059A

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Basic Information

Artifact Identification	Stamp Seal (1900.53.0059A)
Classification/ Nomenclature	Communication Artifacts : Personal Symbols : Personal Identification
Artist/Maker	Unknown
Geographic Location	Asia, West : Palestine, Syria
Period	N/A
Date	1000 BCE
Culture	West Asian, Palestinian or Syrian

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Height)	2.32 cm
Dimension 2 (Length)	1.73 cm
Dimension 3 (Width)	1.49 cm
Weight	8.73 g
Measuring Remarks	Under Review
Materials	Stone--Serpentine
Manufacturing Processes	Carved, Incising, Drilling

Research Remarks

Description	Rogers: A small black stamp seal, very crude in workmanship. Showing the king on horseback. This seal carries a very brief inscription. Porada: A rider on a horse (or bull?). In the field: three drillings behind the rider and, before the animal, a bar with three drillings at the ends and middle, and four wedge marks; these are a loop-staff and, above it, pseudo-cuneiform signs.
Published Description	Under Review
Bibliography	Porada, Edith. "Concordance of Seals in the Oriental Museum, UIUC." Unpublished ms., ca. 1950. Rogers, Frances. Babylonian Seal Cylinders as a Historical Source, UIUC Master's Thesis, 1929.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication	N/A
Reproduction	no

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