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Seleucia / cylinder seal / Agate
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.09.4527
- Object Name
- cylinder seal
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Cylinder seals
- Materials
- Agate
- Weight
- 5.33 g
- Inscribed
- 161
- Full Artifact Description
- Root: Banded agate cylinder seal.
- Subjects
- Hero, rampant gazelle, Worshipper
- Verbatim Date
- 550 - 330 BC
- Unit Grid Number
- G6, Level I or II
- Area
- in brickwork, I or II wall between Rs. 223 & 227 III (II, 168-S. wall)
- Verbatim Provenance
- Iraq
- Verbatim Site
- Seleucia
- Countermark
- 161
- Exhibition Title
- Seleucia-on-the-Tigris: An Exhibition of the excavations at Seleucia, Iraq by the University of Michigan 1927-32, 1936-37
- Case 01 - Seleucia Architecture/Bricks
- Exhibition Curator
- Savage, Elizabeth
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- Publication Title
- Hero and Worshipper at Seleucia: Re-inventions of Babylonia on a banded agate cylinder seal of the Achaemenid Empire in Culture Through Objects: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of P. R. S. Moorey
- Seleucia-on-the-Tigris : An Exhibition of the Excavations at Seleucia, Iraq, by the University of Michigan, 1927-32, 1936-37
- Publication Author
- Root, M. & Sein, D. & Potts, T.
- Savage, Elizabeth (exhibition organizer)
- Publication Year
- 2003
- 1977
- Type Category
- 30
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 1888 x 822
- File Size
- 78 KB
- Record
- 0000.09.4527
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.09.4527/0000_09_4527p01.tif
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"Seleucia; cylinder seal; Agate." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.09.4527/0000_09_4527p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 31, 2024.