CDLI Seals 007223 (physical) (P473478)

Administrative Cylinder seal excavated in Uncertain (mod. uncertain), and now kept in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Museum Collection(s)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Museum Number

Ashm —

Period

-

Provenience

uncertain (mod. uncertain)

Material(s)

Mineral > Hematite

Language(s)

-

Measurements

26.5 mm × 13.0 mm

Seal

Text

object seal
surface a
1. in-di-lim-ma
 en: Indi-Limma,
2. dumu sze?-er-da-mu#
 en: son of Šer-Damu(?),
3. _ARAD_ {d}isz-ha-ra#
 en: servant of Išḫara.

Text content

Genre(s)
Language(s)

Chronology

Period
Accounting Period

Seal impressions

This artifact is a physical seal. See below of a list of its impression(s):

Impression Provenience Period Date

Record

LOD URI https://cdli.network/entity/P473478

Physical information

Artifact type Cylinder seal
Dimensions 26.5 mm × 13.0 mm
Weight
Material(s) Mineral > Hematite
Preservation
Seal Number S007223

Provenance

Provenience uncertain (mod. uncertain)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Museum Number Ashm —
Accession Number

References

  • primary: Ashm seal cat. I, 0872

    [Buchanan1966catalogue1] Buchanan, Briggs. 1966. Cylinder Seals. Vol. 1. Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford : Clarendon Press.

  • history: OrNS 84 (pp. 18-28), 18-28 + fig. 1

    [Archi2015OrNS84] Archi, Alfonso. 2015. “A Royal Seal from Ebla (17th Cent. B.C.) with Hittite Hieroglyphic Symbols.” Orientalia NS 84: 18–28.

  • history: First Impressions, 233

    [Collon2005FirstImpressions] Collon, Dominique. 2005. First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East (2nd Edition). British Museum Press.

Revisions and credits

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2026-07-31 at 19:35:52 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Transliteration Pagé-Perron, Émilie Pagé-Perron, Émilie Approved View
2025-04-26 at 12:08:29 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Transliteration Pagé-Perron, Émilie Pagé-Perron, Émilie Approved View
2024-10-04 at 13:07:26 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2024-08-15 at 13:32:36 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2024-08-01 at 13:36:30 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2024-01-20 at 14:16:48 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2024-01-11 at 09:06:15 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2016-05-03 at 08:08:40 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Archi, Alfonso CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2015-01-22 at 00:00:00 CDLI, CDLI Artifact metadata Wagensonner, Klaus CDLI, CDLI Approved View

Cite this Artifact

“CDLI Seals 007223 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 4, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P473478.
CDLI Seals 007223 (physical) artifact entry (No. P473478). (2024, October 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P473478 (Original work published 2015)
CDLI Seals 007223 (physical) artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P473478 (Accessed: October 24, 2026).
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Cite this Artifact

“CDLI Seals 007223 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 4, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P473478.
CDLI Seals 007223 (physical) artifact entry (No. P473478). (2024, October 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P473478 (Original work published 2015)
CDLI Seals 007223 (physical) artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P473478 (Accessed: October 24, 2026).
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