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Cylinder Seal

1900.53.0103A

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Artifact Identification Cylinder Seal   (1900.53.0103A)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Personal Symbols
    3. :
  3. Personal Identification
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Babylonian, Early Dynastic II
Date 28th – 27th century BCE
Culture N/A

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 3.9 cm
Dimension 2 (Diameter) 1.8 cm
Dimension 3 (N/A) N/A
Weight 22 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Stone--Limestone
Manufacturing Processes Carved, Incising, Drilling

Research Remarks

Description

A slate colored stone seal, about one and one third inches in length. It pictures a nude human figure, with a bird like beak and horns. Two rampant lions with heavy (drill work) meins (sic) constitute one group. Another group of figures on the seal shows a part of a human figure between two rampant animals and apparently grasping each by the head.

Porada: Two crossed lions, the head of one of which is grasped by a bull-man holding an indeterminable weapon in his other hand; a (horned?) demon, whose legs are two goats, grasping in each hand one of the goat tails, which end in serpent's heads.
Published Description Under Review
Bibliography

Scheil, Revue d'Assyriologie, Pl. I #4, Rogers 6, p. 23.

Publ. Kelekian RH Revue d'Assyrologique

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 Unpublished ms., ca. 1950.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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