side view
- bibliography and image source:
Gibson, McGuire: (unpublished).
Chicago: Umm al-Hafriyat Expedition,
- copyright for image:
Oriental Institute
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• museum number: IM83062
• excavation number: UmH111
• provenience: Umm al-Hafriyat
• dimension(s) (in cm):
Height: 2.4 cm, Diam: 1.4 cm
• material: basalt
• date: Akkadian? (ca. 2250 BC)
• description:
Black stone cylinder seal. Scene: standing human figure with fringed robe, right hand upraised in greeting. This figure faces a god in a two-wheeled chariot pulled by an equid. The god holds a whip. There is a star-in-disk in the field. The ends of the
seal incised with grooves. There is a three-line inscription.
• status: feared to be stolen
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