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| publications_key |
Collon2005FirstImpressions
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|---|---|
| publications_type |
history
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| publications_exact_ref | p. 045 and 027. |
| period | Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC) |
|---|---|
| period_comments |
Collon says material suggests attribution of Isin-Larsa period, but the composition and execution/style of scene suggests ED (Collon 1987: 45). Old Assyrian according to WAM web-site
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| designation | CDLI Seals 001342 (physical) |
|---|---|
| artifact_type | Cylinder seal |
| provenience | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
| seal_no | S001342 |
| museum_no | WAM 42.0583 |
| condition_description | The scene depicts a central motif of crossed lions, their heads back-to-back with an inverted crescent in the field between them. Each lion faces a strange, horned quadruped (re-cut?) that rears up on its hind legs. Behind the horned quadrupeds is a cunei |
| period_comments | Collon says material suggests attribution of Isin-Larsa period, but the composition and execution/style of scene suggests ED (Collon 1987: 45) |
| provenience_comments | possible Cappadocian (Collon 1987: 45) |
| is_provenience_uncertain | 0 |
| is_period_uncertain | 0 |
| is_artifact_type_uncertain | 0 |
| is_school_text | 0 |
| artifact_comments | physical |
| collections | Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| genres | Administrative |
| genres_comment | physical cylinder seal |
| genres_uncertain | 0 |
| materials | hematite |
| materials_uncertain | 0 |
| publications_key | 1392275 |
| publications_type | history |
| retired | 0 |
| has_fragments | 0 |
| is_artifact_fake | 0 |
| artifact_type_comments | physical |