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Cylinder Seal

1900.53.0052A

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Artifact Identification Cylinder Seal   (1900.53.0052A)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Personal Symbols
    3. :
  3. Personal Identification
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Achaemenid
Date 550–336 BCE9/15/20219/15/2021
Culture Achaemenid

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Height) 3.00 cm
Dimension 2 (Length) 1.52 cm
Dimension 3 (Width) 1.49 cm
Weight 12.55 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Stone--Chalcedony, Stone--Quartz--Agate
Manufacturing Processes Carved, Incising, Drilling

Research Remarks

Description

Rogers: A one and a half inch blue onyx seal (558–331 B.C.). The king is seated on a high backed throne. A figure stands both to the front and to the back of the king. They hold in their hands long fan like objects. The entire drawing rests on a winged sun disk (Egyptian influence.)

Porada: A Magus(?) before an enthroned Magus, behind whom stands an attending Magus(?). Each of the three figures holds a bundle of sticks, and all three rest upon a winged sun-disk. For rendering of Magus, cf. Persian Survey, pl. 108. Provenace Achaemenian. May date 538-331 BC
Published Description Under Review
Bibliography

Porada, Edith. "Concordance of Seals in the Oriental Museum, UIUC." Unpublished ms., ca. 1950.
Rogers, Frances. Babylonian Seal Cylinders as a Historical Source, UIUC Master's Thesis, 1929.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication N/A
Reproduction no

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