Object Number | B4499 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Parthian |
Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
Locus | CBS Register:exact place unknown |
Period | Persian |
Date Made | 3rd-7th centuries CE |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Chalcedony |
Description | CBS Register: agate (?) ring with certain symbols on sealing surface, ring indented. Parthian period. Exact place unknown (probably near Murashu archives) PBS XIV: The plant of life. The silphium (?). Ring seal. Chalcedony, inside diam.: 15; outside: 22 1/2 mm. Nippur, 1894, near the Murashu's house. |
Outside Diameter | 2.2 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Hermann V. Hilprecht, Babylonian Expedition to Nippur III, 1896 |
Other Number | PBS XIV: 746 - Other Number | P260814 - CDLI Number |
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