CDLI Seals 016661 (physical) (P529362)

Stamp seal excavated in Karkemish (mod. Djerabis), dated to the Pre-Writing (ca. 8500-3500 BC) period and now kept in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Museum Number

Ashm 1914-0090

Period

Pre-Writing (ca. 8500-3500 BC)

Provenience

Karkemish (mod. Djerabis)

Material(s)

Metamorphic rock > Schist

Language(s)

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Measurements

22.0 mm × 18.0 mm × 5.0 mm

Seal Annotation unreviewed

  • Artifact type: Stamp seal Artifact type comments:

    stamp seal (Low back gable) (material from Ashmolean catalog: brownish mica-schist)

  • Material: Metamorphic rock > Schist
  • Measurements (mm): 22.0 high × 18.0 wide × 5.0 thick
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  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.: S016661
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

    stamp seal (Low back gable) (material from Ashmolean catalog: brownish mica-schist)

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  • primary: Ashm seal cat. 2, 119

    [Buchanan1984Ashmseals] Buchanan, Briggs. 1984. The Prehistoric Stamp Seals. Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

  • history: Hittite Seals, 51

    [Hogarth1920Hittiteseals] Hogarth, D. G. 1920. Hittite Seals - with Particular Reference to the Ashmolean Collection. Oxford.

  • history: Deve Hüyük, 462

    [Moorey1980DeveHuyuk] Moorey, P. R. S. 1980. Cemeteries of the First Millennium B.C. at Deve Hüyük, near Carchemish, Salvaged by T. E. Lawrence and C. L. Woolley in 1913: With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Objects in Berlin, Cambridge, Liverpool, London and Oxford. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 87. Oxford.

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  • Museum No.: Ashm 1914-0090
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  • Provenience: Karkemish (mod. Djerabis) Provenience Comments:

    Deve Huyuk, place of purchase

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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-08-15 at 15:50:40 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-02-02 at 10:50:55 Firth, Richard Atf Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-01-22 at 10:28:11 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-01-21 at 19:11:16 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-07-29 at 18:24:34 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-07-29 at 17:58:12 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2022-02-03 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“CDLI Seals 016661 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2022) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 15, 2024. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P529362.
CDLI Seals 016661 (physical) artifact entry (No. P529362). (2024, August 15). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P529362 (Original work published 2022)
CDLI Seals 016661 (physical) artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P529362 (Accessed: March 23, 2025).
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