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Title: Cylinder seal
Period: Achaemenid
Date: ca. 5th century BCE
Geography: Northwestern Iran
Culture: Achaemenid
Medium: Stone, white beige
Dimensions: 0.79 in. (2.01 cm)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1965
Object Number: 65.135.3
“The Book and the Spade (Biblical Archaeological Exhibition).” University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies, April 13, 1975–May 4, 1975.
“Ancient Persia: the Art of an Empire.” The University Museum, Austin, Texas, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, February 12, 1978–June 17, 1978.
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