Scaraboid seal depicting Achemenid winged horned lion
Details
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Title
Scaraboid seal depicting Achemenid winged horned lion
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Associated place
Nymphaion (Grave 5) (place of excavation) -
Date
5th - 4th century BC (500 - 301 BC) -
Material and technique
chalcedony
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Object type
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Dimensions
2.7 cm (height)
2 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Transferred from the Natural Science Museum, 1885.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1885.491
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Further reading
Buchanan, Briggs, and P. R. S. Moorey, Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, iii: The Iron Age Stamp Seals (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), 467, 70
Piper, David, and Christopher White, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1995), no. 24f on p. 28, illus. p. 29 fig. 24f
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