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Cylinder Seal

1900.53.0080A

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Artifact Identification Cylinder Seal   (1900.53.0080A)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Personal Symbols
    3. :
  3. Personal Identification
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Late Old Babylonian, Mitanni
Date 1750–1300 BCE
Culture Late Old Babylonian? or Mitanni?

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 2.4 cm
Dimension 2 (Diameter) 1.1 cm
Dimension 3 (N/A) N/A
Weight 9 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Stone, Stone--Chert--Jasper, Stone--Hematite
Manufacturing Processes Carved, Incising, Drilling

Research Remarks

Description

Rogers: A medium sized hematite seal with a three column inscription. One figure wearing a Shumerian dress is almost hidden by a row of nine dots. Just to the right is the new moon with the old moon in its arms. The second figure is not very clear, at least four dots cover the body. In his hand he grasps a thunder bolt which seems to spring from the foot of the third figure. This figure holds in his hand the crooked staff.

Porada: A short-skirted god with a crook, and a figure (postured like god with mace) grasping(?) a lightning fork, before a sun-god(?). In the field: a sun-disk in a crescent above a mongoose. Terminal: inscription (three columns). I-li a-wi-lim/mar Ba dSin......../ warad dNe (iri2.gal)
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 Unpublished ms., ca. 1950.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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