CDLI Seals 016612 (physical) (P529340)

Stamp seal excavated in Karkemish (mod. Djerabis), and now kept in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Museum Number

Ashm 1913-0652.3

Period

Provenience

Karkemish (mod. Djerabis)

Material(s)

Metamorphic rock > Steatite

Language(s)

Measurements

13.0 mm × 11.0 mm

Seal

Text content

Genre(s)
Language(s)

Chronology

Period
Dates Referenced	600 BC - 400 BC
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	P529340
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P529340

Physical information

stamp seal (Anthropomorphic back) (material from Ashmolean catalog: burnt steatite)

Artifact type	Stamp seal stamp seal (Anthropomorphic back) (material from Ashmolean catalog: burnt steatite)
Dimensions	13.0 mm × 11.0 mm
Weight
Material(s)	Metamorphic rock > Steatite
Preservation
Seal Number	S016612

Provenance

Provenience	Karkemish (mod. Djerabis) Guneydogu Anadolu Bolgesi, Turkey
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Museum Number	Ashm 1913-0652.3
Accession Number

References

primary: Ashm seal cat. III, 81

[BuchananMoorey1988seals] Buchanan, Briggs, and P. R. S. Moorey. 1988. The Iron Age Stamp Seals. Catalogue of Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Musuem 3. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
history: Deve Hüyük, 483

[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
2024-08-15 at 15:50:40	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-01-22 at 10:28:11	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-08-02 at 13:23:20	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-07-29 at 18:24:34	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-07-29 at 17:58:12	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2022-02-03 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	CDLI, CDLI	CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“CDLI Seals 016612 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2022) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 15, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P529340.

CDLI Seals 016612 (physical) artifact entry (No. P529340). (2024, August 15). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P529340 (Original work published 2022)

CDLI Seals 016612 (physical) artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P529340 (Accessed: October 11, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“CDLI Seals 016612 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2022) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 15, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P529340.

CDLI Seals 016612 (physical) artifact entry (No. P529340). (2024, August 15). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P529340 (Original work published 2022)

CDLI Seals 016612 (physical) artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P529340 (Accessed: October 11, 2026).

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