Seleucia / stamp seal / Amethyst

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.03.6739
Object Name: stamp seal
Lot: University of Michigan excavation (Seleucia) Undetermined date
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Seals and sealings
Materials: Amethyst
Weight: 3.50 g
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Root: Amethyst stamp seal pierced for suspension.
Verbatim Date: Probably 5th C BC
Unit Grid Number: G6, Level I
Component/Room: Room 218
Area: 4ft
Verbatim Provenance: Iraq
Verbatim Site: Seleucia
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: The Art of Seals: Aesthetic and Social Dynamics of the Impressed Image from Antiquity to the Present; Case 04 - Jewelry
Exhibition Curator: Root, Margaret Cool
Exhibition Year: 2009
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.03.6739
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.03.6739/0000_03_6739

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Full citation: "Seleucia; stamp seal; Amethyst." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.03.6739/0000_03_6739. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.