Cylinder Seal

Place CreatedAsia

CultureAkkadian

PeriodAkkadian Dynasty

Date2350-2150 BCE

MediumSerpentine

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Rosen

Dimensions1/2 x 7/8 in. (1.3 x 2.2 cm)

Object number1985.022.014

Exhibition HistorySelected Acquisitions: Asia to America, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, May 8 - August 8, 1987
Five Continents-Nine Millennia, Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, International Concourse E, March 1995 - November 1996
Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, International Concourse E, March 1997-March 1, 2000

ProvenanceSaid to be ex Marcopoli Collection, Aleppo, Syria, assembled late 19th Century. Thence by descent. With Jonathan Rosen [Atlantis Antiquities, Ltd.], New York, New York, purchased in Zurich, Switzerland, May 1982.

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