CDLI Seals 020189 (physical) (P541065)

Administrative Cylinder seal excavated in Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar), dated to the Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 122947

Period

Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)

Provenience

Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)

Material(s)

Metamorphic rock > Steatite

Language(s)

-

Measurements

26.0 mm × 11.5 mm , 11.50 g

Seal Annotation unreviewed

  • Artifact type: Cylinder seal Artifact type comments:

    Dilmun

  • Material: Metamorphic rock > Steatite
  • Measurements (mm): 26.0 high × 11.5 wide
  • Weight: 11.50
  • Artifact Preservation:
  • Condition Description:
  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.: S020189
  • Seal information:
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  • primary: WAS 4, E.Ur 2

    [Collon2016WAS4] Collon, Dominique, and Edith Porada. 2016. Cylinder Seals. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum 4. British Museum Press.

  • history: First Impressions, 611

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

  • history: UE 10, 632

    [Legrain1951UE10] Legrain, Léon. 1951. Seal Cylinders. Ur Excavations 10.

  • history: UE 4, p. 185

    [Woolley1955UE4] Woolley, C. Leonard. 1955. Ur Excavations: The Early Periods. UE 4. http://digital.library.stonybrook.edu/cdm/ref/collection/amar/id/152602.

  • history: UE 8, p. 96

    [Woolley1965UE8] Woolley, C. Leonard. 1965. The Kassite Period and the Period of the Assyrian Kings. Ur Excavations, vol. 8.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: BM 122947
  • Accession No.:

  • Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
  • Elevation:
  • Stratigraphic Level:
  • Excavation No: U 16220
  • Findspot Square:
  • Findspot Comments:

    Legrain: Found in a Larsa tomb hacked in a wall dividing two appartments in Bur-Sin [= Amar-Sin]'s NW Mauoleum

  • Period: Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)
  • Period Comments:

    Collon: demonstrating later 3rd Millennium BC Indus influence on Mesopotamia. Woolley: Kassite/Assyrian

  • Dates Referenced:
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  • Accounting Period: 0

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-10-04 at 13:07:26 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-10-04 at 12:28:36 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-09-28 at 13:45:35 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-04-07 at 08:58:02 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-04-02 at 16:32:17 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-02-18 at 17:03:29 Firth, Richard Atf Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-12-12 at 17:48:59 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-10-02 at 18:44:09 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“CDLI Seals 020189 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2023) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 4, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P541065.
CDLI Seals 020189 (physical) artifact entry (No. P541065). (2024, October 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P541065 (Original work published 2023)
CDLI Seals 020189 (physical) artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P541065 (Accessed: May 15, 2025).
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P541065},
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