CDLI Seals 006995 (physical) (P473250)

Administrative Cylinder seal excavated in Nagar (mod. Tell Brak), dated to the Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC) period and now kept in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Cite

Museum Collection(s)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Museum Number

Ashm 1938-0079

Period

Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)

Provenience

Nagar (mod. Tell Brak)

Material(s)

Sedimentary rock > Limestone

Language(s)

Measurements

38.0 mm × 13.0 mm

Seal

Text content

Genre(s)
Language(s)

Chronology

Period	Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Seal impressions

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

Impression	Provenience	Period	Date

Record

CDLI number	P473250
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P473250

Physical information

Artifact type	Cylinder seal
Dimensions	38.0 mm × 13.0 mm
Weight
Material(s)	Sedimentary rock > Limestone
Preservation
Seal Number	S006995

Provenance

Provenience	Nagar (mod. Tell Brak)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Museum Number	Ashm 1938-0079
Accession Number

References

primary: Ashm seal cat. I, 570

[Buchanan1966catalogue1] Buchanan, Briggs. 1966. Cylinder Seals. Vol. 1. Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford : Clarendon Press.
history: Mountains and Lowlands, p. 116, Fig. 60

[Collins2016Mountains] Collins, Paul. 2016. Mountains and Lowlands: Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia. University of Oxford.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Reviewer	Status
2024-08-15 at 16:26:42	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-08-15 at 13:32:36	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-01-25 at 16:42:05	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-01-10 at 19:35:02	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-07-20 at 10:14:24	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2015-01-22 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Wagensonner, Klaus	CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“CDLI Seals 006995 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 15, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P473250.

CDLI Seals 006995 (physical) artifact entry (No. P473250). (2024, August 15). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P473250 (Original work published 2015)

CDLI Seals 006995 (physical) artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P473250 (Accessed: November 2, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“CDLI Seals 006995 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 15, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P473250.

CDLI Seals 006995 (physical) artifact entry (No. P473250). (2024, August 15). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P473250 (Original work published 2015)

CDLI Seals 006995 (physical) artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P473250 (Accessed: November 2, 2026).

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