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JEWELRY: group of stamp seals, beads, and pendants arranged as necklace (modern reconstruction); though found in a context dating to the Early Dynastic II period some of the stamp seals are clearly much older (late 5th millennium B.C.), indicating that they were heirlooms reused in secondary context


provenience:
Tell Asmar, Square Temple I
date:
Early Dynastic II (ca. 2,600 B.C.) = date of archaeological context



Find Numbers: Museum: Museum Number:
As. 33:241 Iraq Museum (unknown)
As. 33:242 Iraq Museum IM 18993
As. 33:243 Iraq Museum IM 19004
As. 33:244 Oriental Institute Museum A12304
As. 33:245 Oriental Institute Museum A12282
As. 33:246 Oriental Institute Museum A12277
As. 33:260 Iraq Museum IM 18989
As. 33:261 Oriental Institute Museum A12276
As. 33:262 Oriental Institute Museum A12243
As. 33:263 Oriental Institute Museum A12280
As. 33:265 Oriental Institute Museum A12273
As. 33:277 Iraq Museum IM 19005



Created: December 14, 2004
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