CDLI Seals 016830 (physical) (P529502)

Stamp seal excavated in Uncertain (mod. Jemdet Nasr), 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 1926-0482

Period

Pre-Writing (ca. 8500-3500 BC)

Provenience

uncertain (mod. Jemdet Nasr)

Material(s)

Mineral > Calcite

Language(s)

-

Measurements

36.0 mm × 23.0 mm

Seal Annotation unreviewed

  • Artifact type: Stamp seal
  • Material: Mineral > Calcite
  • Measurements (mm): 36.0 high × 23.0 wide
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  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.: S016830
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

    stamp seal (High hemispheroid) (material from Ashmolean catalog: banded brown calcite); Matthews: Brown/white banded calcite. Pierced . Drilled design, each hole c. 0.05 cm deep . Flat side badly abraded.

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  • primary: Ashm seal cat. 2, 212

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

  • history: Mackay Jemdet Nasr, p. 286, 2582

    [Mackay1931JemdetNasr] Mackay, Ernest. 1931. “Report on Excavations at Jemdet Nasr, Iraq,” Anthropology Memoirs, vol. 1 no. 3, , 219–303.

  • history: Secrets of Dark Mound, Fig. 4.1

    [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 1926-0482
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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
2024-03-18 at 09:03:56 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
2024-01-18 at 10:05:10 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-01-18 at 08:48:02 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-07-30 at 08:47:07 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 016830 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2022) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 15, 2024. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P529502.
CDLI Seals 016830 (physical) artifact entry (No. P529502). (2024, August 15). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P529502 (Original work published 2022)
CDLI Seals 016830 (physical) artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P529502 (Accessed: March 23, 2025).
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	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P529502},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P529502},
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