Cylinder Seal with Stars and Moon
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Resource ID
2907
Source Title
cylinder seal
Source date
800-750 BCE
Dimensions
15 mm diameter, 34.5 mm x 1.37 in x 0.81 in
Categories
astrology, astronomy, chalcedony, lightning, moon, dog(s), griffin, Assyrian, seal/cylinder, Sin, star(s), Pleiades, Ninurta, The Stars (Pleiades)
Current Location
The British Museum, London, UK
Provenance
Purchased from I Élias Géjou in 1928, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG62236
Originally from Mesopotamia, likely northern/Assyrian.
Reference
119426
The British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1928-0609-24
Gadd 1928 / Mesopotamian cylinder seals (p.40, pl.XXIb(3))
Wiseman 1959 / Cylinder Seals of Western Asia (pl.75)
Porada E 1961 / Review of D.J Wiseman "Cylinder Seals of Western Asia" (p.251)
Collon 2001a / Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals V: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods (232, pls XIX, XXIV, XXXV)
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