Haematite Cylinder Seal

Haematite Cylinder Seal

Description:

Haematite cylinder seal with engraved figures; perforated for suspension; very polished surface; broken at one end; engraved with a star-shaped object above an animal, a stylised sacred tree and a seated animal with lion-like features; ingot in the field above the latter; some traces of possible cuneiform signs which have been worked over at a later period.


Dimensions: Diameter: 0.40 centimetres bore ; Diameter: 1 centimetres; Length: 2.20 centimetres


Object Type: cylinder seal


Techniques: engraved; polished; perforated

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1300 - 1150 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Klavdia

Accession Number:

1899,1229.36