Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten tag affixed by string reads: 'Forgery'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Cylinder seal
Event Date 1923
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Cylinder seal of black stone, pierced longitudinally for suspension. Three lines of text and unclear decoration. Surface pitted. Possibly a forgery.
Event Date 6/11/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Research was undertaken by Kathryn Kelley and David Young in 2018, partially funded by the Crowther-Beynon Grant, as part of a larger Oxford University project ’Seals and Their Impressions in the Ancient Near East’ (SIANE). Kathryn Kelley ultimately provided updates to the description, date, and translation.
Information regarding her analysis can be found in the archive, Doc.492.

Event Date 2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Inscription)
Kathryn Kelley: Inscription naming the seal's owner, in the format "PN1, offspring of PN2", and described as servant of [the goddess] Ninkur(?)
Event Date 12/3/2021
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Kathryn Kelley: 'Interceding goddess with upraised arms. Drilled style, with use of drill for portions of the cuneiform inscription'
Event Date 12/3/2021
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Amendments / updates)
The date field previously stated '?Modern'. Kathryn Kelley provided the date 'Old Babylonian (c. 1900-1600 BC)?' and so the field has been updated to reflect this.
Event Date 12/3/2021
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson