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Cylinder seal

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Cylinder seal

Period:: Kassite
Date:: ca. 16th–12th century B.C.
Geography:: Mesopotamia
Culture:: Kassite
Medium:: Microline feldspar
Dimensions:: 1.38 in. (3.51 cm)
Classification:: Stone
Credit Line:: Gift of The Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr., 1985
Accession Number:: 1985.357.26

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

By the 1930s, collection of Mrs. William H. Moore, New York (until d. 1955); from 1955, on loan to the Museum by her grandson, The Right Reverend Paul Moore, Jr.; acquired by the Museum in 1985, gift of The Right Reverend Paul Moore, Jr., New York.
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Who
Kassite (14)
What
Stone (7,956)

Seals (2,928)

Cylinder seals (831)

Feldspar (73)
Where
Asia (68,122)

Iraq (2,493)
When
2000-1000 B.C. (18,623)
In the Museum
Ancient Near Eastern Art (6,169)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Mesopotamia, 2000–1000 B.C.
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