Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten tag affixed by string: 'RANSOME [sic] COLLECTION'
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. Standing figures, plants and a line of text.
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 (Physical description)
Kathryn Kelley: 'Presentation scene with three tall, narrow standing figures and four small nude figures (two female and two male) tête-bêche. Heavy use of drill, and cuneiform inscription interspersed between the larger figures in three lines. Drilled style'
Event Date 12/3/2021
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Inscription)
Kathryn Kelley: ip-qa2-tum
dumu {d}za-ba4-ba4-um-ma-ti
ARAD {d}nin-šubur
"PN1, son of PN2, servant of (the deity) Ninšubur"

Event Date 12/3/2021
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Amendments / updates)
The date field previously stated '?Babylonian'. Kathryn Kelley provided the date 'Late Old Babylonian (First half of the second millennium BC)' and so the field has been updated to reflect this.
Event Date 12/3/2021
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson