Ring Seal

B4499

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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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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