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Publication
Primary publication: CDLI Seals 001348 (physical)
Author: CDLI
Publication date: 2012ff.
Secondary publication(s): Collon, Dominique, First Impressions (1987) 035-039 period IIIb
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CDLI no.: P272858
UCLA Library ARK 21198/zz0020d0f6
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Source of original electronic files
Catalogue: nn
Transliteration: cdlistaff
Translation: no translation
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Collection Information
Owner: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Museum no.: WAM 42.0602
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Text Content:
Genre: Administrative
Sub-genre: physical cylinder seal
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Language: Sumerian
Physical Information
Object type: seal (not impression)
Material: stone
Object remarks: physical
Measurements (mm): 34 x 12.9 x ?
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Surface preservation:
Condition description: The scene depicts an interceding deity with one hand raised; with the other hand, the interceding deity leads a worshipper before a seated, bearded god wearing a tufted robe. There is a cuneiform inscription in two registers.
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Seal no.: S001348
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Provenience: uncertain (mod. uncertain)
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Chronology:
Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Period remarks: "post-Akkadian/Ur III"
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Seal (not impression)

surface a
1. ur-du6-ku3-ga
2. dumu ku5-da