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Artifact

Period

2 ED I-II (ca. 2900-2700 BC)

29 Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)

7 Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)

4 Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

48 no value

Material

27 stone

1 stone > igneous rock > basalt

1 stone > metamorphic rock > marble

14 stone > metamorphic rock > steatite

18 stone > mineral > chlorite

5 stone > mineral > hematite

17 stone > mineral > serpentine

7 no value

Artifact type

4 seal (not impression)

86 seal (not impression) > Cylinder seal

Provenience

6 Alalakh (mod. Tell Açana/Atshana)

1 Kanesh (mod. Kültepe)

1 Samal (mod. Zinčirli)

8 Ugarit (mod. Ras Shamra)

69 uncertain (mod. uncertain)

5 no value

Museum Collections

6 Archeological Museum, Antakya, Hatay, Turkey

5 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

3 British Museum, London, UK

11 Département des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France

4 J. Pierpont Morgan Library Collection, New York, New York, USA

4 Louvre Museum, Paris, France

1 Moore, Mrs. W. H.

7 National Museum of Syria, Damascus, Syria

7 Newell Collections of Babylonian Seals, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

5 Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

2 Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

23 Rosen, Jonathan P., New York, New York, USA

2 Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

10 no value

Composite/seal

0 composite

0 composite witness

90 seal

0 seal impression

0 other

Textual

Language

90 no value

Genre

90 Administrative

Publication

Authors

8 Amiet, Pierre

16 Buchanan, Briggs

13 Collon, Dominique

6 Delaporte, Louis

1 Eisen, Gustavus A.

2 Frankfort, Henri

2 Legrain, Léon

1 Matthiae, Paolo

2 Moortgat, Anton

7 Porada, Edith

90 Porter, Barbara A.

33 Teissier, Beatrice

4 Von der Osten, Hans H.

1 Ward, William H.

6 Woolley, C. Leonard

Date of publication

1 1909

4 1910

2 1923

2 1925

4 1934

2 1939

3 1940

4 1948

6 1955

1 1960

5 1966

11 1981

6 1982

33 1984

8 1992

90 2001

4 2005

1 2014

2 2015

3 2016

Credits

Contributing project

2 Electronic Babylonian Library

2 Penn Museum

11 Sceaux-cylindres du Proche-Orient ancien

90 no value

Data

Artifact images

13 photo

Chemical data

0 With

90 Without

External link

2 Electronic Babylonian Library

4 Louvre Collections

2 Penn Museum

11 Sceaux-cylindres du Proche-Orient ancien

Image Annotations

0 With

90 Without

Publications

90 With

0 Without

Transliteration

72 With

18 Without

Text Annotations

0 With

90 Without

Transcription

0 With

90 Without

Translation

0 With

90 Without

Translation Language