Seleucia / Sealing / Bitumen / Ceramic

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.03.5716
Object Name: Sealing
Lot: University of Michigan excavation (Seleucia) Undetermined date
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Seals and sealings
Materials: Bitumen; Ceramic
Design Style: McDowell AIIb 2
Weight: 1.5 g
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Impression or seal with an anchor (royal symbol of the Seleucids) and horse’s head
Subjects: Anchor and Horse’s head
Earliest Date: 294 BCE
Latest Date: 141 BCE
Verbatim Provenance: Iraq
Verbatim Site: Seleucia
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Seleucia-on-the-Tigris: An Exhibition of the excavations at Seleucia, Iraq by the University of Michigan 1927-32, 1936-37; Discovery! Excavating the Ancient World
Exhibition Curator: Savage, Elizabeth; Richards, Janet
Publication Title: Seleucia-on-the-Tigris : An Exhibition of the Excavations at Seleucia, Iraq, by the University of Michigan, 1927-32, 1936-37; Stamped and Inscribed Objects from Seleucia on the Tigris
Publication Author: Savage, Elizabeth (exhibition organizer); McDowell, Robert H.
Publication Year: 1977; 1935
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.03.5716
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.03.5716/dsc_2417.jpg

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Full citation: "Seleucia; Sealing; Bitumen; Ceramic." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.03.5716/dsc_2417.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 02, 2024.