Mesopotamian cylinder seal
- Description
- This cylinder seal is made from black and brown serpentinite. Most of the seal contains an inscription with an invocation to the god Ninkarnunna. It also shows a figure who might be a king standing before a goddess.
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1946/409
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Common Name
- Mesopotamian cylinder seal
- Simple Name
- seal
- Full Name
- cylinder seal
- Dimensions
- whole height 24 mm; whole diameter 9 mm
- Cultural Group
- Mesopotamia
- Period Classification
- Old Assyro-Babylonian - 1800-1600 BC
- Production Year Low
- -1900
- Production Year High
- -1595
- Family Group
- Material
- serpentinite
- Function Name
- identifying/ trading/ protecting
- Function Detail
- for identification, to authenticate documents; to seal tablets and envelopes giving details of consignments of goods, agreements, identified ownership; to secure doors and containers; of decorative, amuletic value
- Collector / Excavator
- Montague, LAD
- Collection Area Region
- W
- Collection Continent
- Asia
- Inscription / Transcription
- nin - ka - nun - na an uras gis - tuku sid - du e - su - me - sa ki - ti sum ir - na
