cylinder seal / Marble

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.02.6804
Object Name: cylinder seal
Lot: Waterman, Leroy
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Cylinder seals
Materials: Marble
Weight: 29.37 g
Inscribed: 161
Verbatim Date: 3100-2900 BC
Verbatim Provenance: Mesopotamia (Iraq?)
Countermark: 161
Exhibition Title: The Art of Seals: Aesthetic and Social Dynamics of the Impressed Image from Antiquity to the Present; Case 02 - Seals
Exhibition Curator: Root, Margaret Cool
Exhibition Year: 2009
Type Category: 30

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.02.6804
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.02.6804/0000_02_6804

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Full citation: "cylinder seal; Marble." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.02.6804/0000_02_6804. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.