- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1990.63
- Title
- Stamp Seal in the Form of a Couchant Animal: Drilled Dots
- Classification
- Seals
- Work Type
- seal
- Date
- 3400-3100 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Jemdet Nasr (Mesopotamia)
- Period
- Jemdet Nasr period
- Culture
- Mesopotamian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/287374
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Agate
- Technique
- Carved
- Dimensions
- L: 2.6cm; W: 1.7cm; H: 0.9cm
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of G. Max Bernheimer
- Accession Year
- 1990
- Object Number
- 1990.63
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Shaped as a couchant bull or goat; the underside surface is drilled with dots in indeterminate pattern.
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