CDLI Seals 013201 (physical) (P511720)

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

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 134928

Period

Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)

Provenience

uncertain (mod. uncertain)

Material(s)

Stone

Language(s)

-

Measurements

45.0 mm × 14.0 mm

Seal

  • Artifact type: Cylinder seal Artifact type comments:

    physical

  • Material: Stone
  • Measurements (mm): 45.0 high × 14.0 wide
  • Weight:
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  • Condition Description:
  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.: S013201
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

    physical

  • Genre(s):
  • Language(s):

  • primary: WAS 4, Iran 15

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

  • history: First Impressions, 293

    [Collon2005FirstImpressions] Collon, Dominique. 2005. First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East (2nd Edition). British Museum Press.

  • history: Principles of composition, no. 249

    [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.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: BM 134928
  • Accession No.:

  • Provenience: uncertain (mod. uncertain) Provenience Comments:

    Iran or Bābili (mod. Babylon) ?

  • Elevation:
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-10-04 at 13:07:26 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity 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

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Cite this Artifact
“CDLI Seals 013201 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2018) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 4, 2024. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P511720.
CDLI Seals 013201 (physical) artifact entry (No. P511720). (2024, October 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P511720 (Original work published 2018)
CDLI Seals 013201 (physical) artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P511720 (Accessed: January 23, 2025).
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P511720},
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