CDLI Seals 013190 (physical) (P511704)

Administrative Cylinder seal excavated in Uncertain (mod. uncertain), dated to the Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

Metadata / catalogue

Flat catalogue

As CSV As TSV

Expanded catalogue

As JSON

Linked catalogue

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Text / annotations

Text data

As ATF As JTF

Linked annotations

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Related publications

As CSV As BibTeX

Chemical Data

Seal Chemistry

As CSV
Metadata history Transliteration history

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 089182

Period

Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)

Provenience

uncertain (mod. uncertain)

Material(s)

Mineral > Agate

Language(s)

-

Measurements

32.0 mm × 13.0 mm

Seal

object seal
surface a
1. _kar lu2 {d}utu_
2. _kar lu2 {d}mes_
3. ki _du10? ka eme#_
4. _a-ba-ma-[sza3]_
5. _{d}nin-e2-an-na_

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)
Consult word list of Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)

  • Artifact type: Cylinder seal Artifact type comments:

    physical

  • Material: Mineral > Agate
  • Measurements (mm): 32.0 high × 13.0 wide
  • Weight:
  • Artifact Preservation:
  • Condition Description:
  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.: S013190
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

    physical

  • Genre(s):
  • Language(s):

  • primary: WAS 4, 1K 27

    [Collon2016WAS4] Collon, Dominique, and Edith Porada. 2016. Cylinder Seals. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum 4. British Museum Press.

  • history: Collon Babylonian seals, p. 107, Fig. 7.16

    [Collon2007BabSeals] Collon, Dominique. 2007. “Babylonian Seals.” Edited by Gwendolyn Leick. The Babylonian World, 95–123.

  • history: Principles of composition, no. 88

    [Matthews1990PrinciplesComposition] Matthews, Donald M. 1990. Principles of Composition in Near Eastern Glyphic of the Later Second Millennium B.C. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Series Archaeologica 8.

  • history: OrNS 23 (pp. 1-39), no. 5

    [vanBuren1954Esoteric] Buren, Elizabeth Douglas van. 1954. “The Esoteric Significance of Kassite Glyptic Art.” Orientalia NS 23.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: BM 089182
  • Accession No.:

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-12-11 at 08:08:25 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-09-10 at 21:32:33 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2018-07-11 at 03:23:01 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Atf Zimmermann, Lynn-Salammbô CDLI approved View
2018-07-07 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Dahl, Jacob L. CDLI approved View

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

This artifact is a physical seal. See below of a list of its impression(s):

Impression Provenience Period Date

General Notes: -
CDLI Notes: -
Cite this Artifact
“CDLI Seals 013190 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2018) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 11, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P511704.
CDLI Seals 013190 (physical) artifact entry (No. P511704). (2023, December 11). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P511704 (Original work published 2018)
CDLI Seals 013190 (physical) artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P511704 (Accessed: April 1, 2025).
@misc{2023CDLI,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-04-01]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {dec 11},
	title = {CDLI {Seals} 013190 (physical) artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P511704},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P511704},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/12/11/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P511704
LB  - CDLI:P511704
M1  - 2025/4/1/
TI  - CDLI Seals 013190 (physical) artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P511704
ER  -
This website uses essential cookies that are necessary for it to work properly. These cookies are enabled by default.