Administrative Cylinder seal excavated in Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK
Museum Collection(s)
British Museum, London, UKMuseum Number
BM 089101Provenience
Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)Material(s)
StoneLanguage(s)
AkkadianMeasurements
-Seal
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| Language(s) | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) |
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| Dates Referenced | Abi-ešuḫ.00.00.00 |
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This artifact is a physical seal. See below of a list of its impression(s):
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Frayne: clearly a forgery, but it may have been copied from a genuine original.
| CDLI number | P475341 |
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| LOD URI | https://cdli.network/entity/P475341 |
physical
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Cylinder seal physical
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| Material(s) | Stone |
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| Seal Number | S008564 |
| Provenience |
Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) [uncertain] Acquired from Sir Ernest A T Wallis Budge in 1888 as a result of his second mission to Egypt and Mesopotamia in 1887-1888 to investigate the "leakage" of tablets from sites supposedly guarded on behalf of the British Museum.
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| Collection(s) |
British Museum, London, UK |
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| Museum Number | BM 089101 |
| Accession Number | 1888-05-12, 0773 |
primary: RIME 4, .03.08.x2006
history: WAS 3, 617
history: Engraved on stone, pl. 25, seal no. IV
| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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| 2026-07-18 at 14:11:25 | Cross, Aidan | Artifact metadata | Cross, Aidan | Pagé-Perron, Émilie | Approved |
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| 2025-07-10 at 06:06:07 | Pagé-Perron, Émilie | Image annotation | Bampfield, Lara | Pagé-Perron, Émilie | Approved |
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| 2024-04-08 at 09:54:42 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2024-02-29 at 19:30:47 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2023-09-29 at 09:58:03 | Dahl, Jacob L. | Image annotation | Bampfield, Lara | Dahl, Jacob L. | Approved |
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| 2023-09-05 at 10:19:08 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2019-10-04 at 06:43:17 | Firth, Richard | Transliteration | Firth, Richard | CDLI, CDLI | Approved |
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| 2019-10-04 at 06:43:09 | Firth, Richard | Transliteration | Firth, Richard | CDLI, CDLI | Approved |
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| 2015-01-26 at 00:00:00 | CDLI, CDLI | Artifact metadata | Wagensonner, Klaus | CDLI, CDLI | Approved |
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@misc{2026CDLI,
note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-16]},
year = {2026},
month = {jul 20},
title = {CDLI {Seals} 008564 (physical) artifact entry},
url = {https://cdli.earth/P475341},
howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P475341},
}
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