CDLI Seals 006553 (physical) (P472808)
Administrative Cylinder seal excavated in Uncertain (mod. Jemdet Nasr), dated to the Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC) period and now kept in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UKMetadata / catalogue
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UKMuseum Number
Ashm 1926-0485Period
Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)Provenience
uncertain (mod. Jemdet Nasr)Language(s)
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16.5 mm × 17.0 mmSeal
surface a
(no linguistic content)
Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)
Consult word list of Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)
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Artifact type:
Cylinder seal Artifact type comments:
physical
- Material: Sedimentary rock > Limestone
- Measurements (mm): 16.5 high × 17.0 wide
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- Join Information:
- Seal no.: S006553
- Seal information:
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Artifact comments:
Matthews: Pinkish/reddish fine limestone. Incised Iines up to 0.15 cm deep. Pierced.
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primary: Ashm seal cat. I, 42
[Buchanan1966catalogue] Buchanan, Briggs. 1966. Cylinder Seals. Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum 1. Oxford University Press.
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history: Frankfort Cyl. Seals, pl. 8i
[Frankfort1939CylSeals] Frankfort, Henri. 1939. Cylinder Seals: A Documentary Essay on the Art and Religion of the Ancient Near East. Macmillan.
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history: Mackay Jemdet Nasr, p. 285, pl. 73, Fig. 4
[Mackay1931JemdetNasr] Mackay, Ernest. 1931. “Report on Excavations at Jemdet Nasr, Iraq,” Anthropology Memoirs, vol. 1 no. 3, , 219–303.
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history: Secrets of Dark Mound, Fig. 5.6 Pl. 14
[Matthews2002DarkMound] Matthews, Roger J. 2002. Secrets of the Dark Mound: Jemdet Nasr 1926-1928. Aris & Phillips for British School of Archaeology in Iraq.
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- Museum No.: Ashm 1926-0485
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- Provenience: uncertain (mod. Jemdet Nasr)
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- Excavation No: GN 3357
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- Period: Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)
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- Accounting Period: 0
Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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2024-03-18 at 14:56:50 | Firth, Richard | Artifact | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved | ||
2024-01-18 at 09:24:51 | Firth, Richard | Artifact | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved | ||
2023-07-20 at 10:14:24 | Firth, Richard | Artifact | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved | ||
2015-05-17 at 19:11:50 | Englund, Robert K. | Atf | Englund, Robert K. | CDLI | approved | ||
2015-01-22 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact | Wagensonner, Klaus | CDLI | approved |
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