Cylinder Seal with Pleiades, Sun, and Crescent Moon
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Resource ID
4921
Source Title
cylinder seal
Source date
900-800 BCE
Dimensions
H. 40 mm, 15 mm diameter
Categories
astrology, astronomy, moon, sun, venus, goat(s), sphinx, Assyrian, seal/cylinder, Šamaš, Sin, star(s), Pleiades, Ištar, The Stars (Pleiades)
Current Location
The British Museum, London, UK
Provenance
Aquired by The British Museum in 1851.
Excavated by Sir Austen Henry Layard prior to 1851.
Originally from Assyria (likely Nineveh, Nimrud, or Dur-Sharrukin).
Reference
BM 89600
The British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_N-1101
(Registration number: N.1101)
Collon 2001a / Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals V: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods (68)
Layard A H 1853a / Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert (pl.69: 47)
Wiseman 1959 / Cylinder Seals of Western Asia (pl.86)
Porada E 1961 / Review of D.J Wiseman "Cylinder Seals of Western Asia" (p.251)
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