| Publication |
| Primary publication: |
CDLI Seals 001342 (physical) |
| Author: |
CDLI |
| Publication date: |
2012ff. |
| Secondary publication(s): |
Collon, Dominique, First Impressions (1987) 045 and 027. |
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| Published collation: |
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| CDLI no.: |
P272852 |
| UCLA Library ARK |
21198/zz001vh6r2
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| Source of original electronic files |
| Catalogue: |
nn |
| Transliteration: |
cdlistaff |
| Translation: |
no translation |
| Photo: |
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| Line Art: |
If not otherwise indicated, line art drawings prepared in their digital
form by CDLI staff are to be credited to primary publication author(s).
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| Collection Information |
| Owner: |
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| Museum no.: |
WAM 42.0583 |
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| Acquisition history: |
Brummer, 1941 (from the collection of Mrs. Henry Walters) |
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| Text Content: |
| Genre: |
Administrative |
| Sub-genre: |
physical cylinder seal |
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| Physical Information |
| Object type: |
seal (not impression) |
| Material: |
stone: hematite |
| Object remarks: |
physical |
| Measurements (mm): |
? x ? x ? |
| Object preservation: |
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| Condition description: |
The scene depicts a central motif of crossed lions, their heads back-to-back with an inverted crescent in the field between them. Each lion faces a strange, horned quadruped (re-cut?) that rears up on its hind legs. Behind the horned quadrupeds is a cunei |
| Join information: |
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| Seal no.: |
S001342 |
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| Provenience: |
| Provenience: |
uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
| Provenience remarks: |
possible Cappadocian (Collon 1987: 45) |
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| Chronology: |
| Period: |
uncertain |
| Period remarks: |
Collon says material suggests attribution of Isin-Larsa period, but the composition and execution/style of scene suggests ED (Collon 1987: 45) |
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