Mesopotamian cylinder seal
Cylinder seals were used like signatures to authenticate documents, or to secure containers. On this seal a horned animal is standing between a temple and a reed hut. Conical reed huts like this can still be seen in modern day Iraq.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 86/1966/S19
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Western Asia (Middle East and Near East)
- Collector Excavator
- Corkill, N.L., Dr
- Material
- marble
- Common Name
- Mesopotamian cylinder seal
- Simple Name
- seal
- Production Year Low
- -3000
- Production Year High
- -2900
