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Scaraboid seal

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Scaraboid seal

Period:: Iron Age, Phoenicia (?)
Date:: ca. early 1st millennium B.C.
Geography:: Levant or Syria
Medium:: Steatite, mottled black-brown
Dimensions:: Seal Face: 1.96 x 1.4 cm Height: 0.88 cm String Hole: 0.3 cm
Classification:: Stone
Credit Line:: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1984
Accession Number:: 1984.383.32

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Provenance

By 1983, collection of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, New York; acquired by the Museum in 1984, gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, New York.
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What
Sculpture (24,350)

Stone (7,986)

Scarabs (3,371)

Seals (2,929)

Talc (2,040)

Steatite (2,030)

Scaraboids (215)
Where
Asia (68,071)

Levant (306)
When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,148)
In the Museum
Ancient Near Eastern Art (6,170)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Eastern Mediterranean, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.

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