CDLI Seals 007002 (physical) (P473257)

Administrative Cylinder seal excavated in Karkemish (mod. Djerabis), dated to the Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) period and now kept in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Museum Number

Ashm 1913-0661

Period

Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)

Provenience

Karkemish (mod. Djerabis)

Material(s)

Sedimentary rock > Limestone

Language(s)

Measurements

24.0 mm × 12.5 mm

Seal

Text content

Genre(s)
Language(s)

Chronology

Period	Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 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	P473257
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P473257

Physical information

Artifact type	Cylinder seal
Dimensions	24.0 mm × 12.5 mm
Weight
Material(s)	Sedimentary rock > Limestone
Preservation
Seal Number	S007002

Provenance

Provenience	Karkemish (mod. Djerabis) Place of purchase: Turkey, Deve Huyuk
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Museum Number	Ashm 1913-0661
Accession Number

References

primary: Ashm seal cat. I, 577

[Buchanan1966catalogue1] Buchanan, Briggs. 1966. Cylinder Seals. Vol. 1. Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford : Clarendon Press.
history: First Impressions, 386

[Collon2005FirstImpressions] Collon, Dominique. 2005. First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East (2nd Edition). British Museum Press.
history: Deve Hüyük, 445

[Moorey1980DeveHuyuk] Moorey, P. R. S. 1980. Cemeteries of the First Millennium B.C. at Deve Hüyük, near Carchemish, Salvaged by T. E. Lawrence and C. L. Woolley in 1913: With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Objects in Berlin, Cambridge, Liverpool, London and Oxford. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 87. Oxford.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Reviewer	Status
2024-10-04 at 13:07:26	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-08-15 at 15:50:40	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
2024-01-22 at 10:28:11	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-01-21 at 09:26:12	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-01-20 at 14:50:25	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 007002 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 4, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P473257.

CDLI Seals 007002 (physical) artifact entry (No. P473257). (2024, October 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P473257 (Original work published 2015)

CDLI Seals 007002 (physical) artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P473257 (Accessed: October 6, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“CDLI Seals 007002 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 4, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P473257.

CDLI Seals 007002 (physical) artifact entry (No. P473257). (2024, October 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P473257 (Original work published 2015)

CDLI Seals 007002 (physical) artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P473257 (Accessed: October 6, 2026).

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