Small white cylinder seal, presentation scene, worn
Height: 0.023 m
Width: 0.011 m
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (2005) by Groos, Gordon, Mr. and Mrs.
Old Babylonian
Circa
-2340
-
-2159
possibly Aragonite/Calcite Quartzite
Accession number: ANE.8.2005
Primary reference Number: 137220
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Cylinder seal" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/137220 Accessed: 2023-03-27 11:28:36
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/137220
|title=Cylinder seal
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-27 11:28:36|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-137220
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Accession Number: ANE.13.2005
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