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Stamp Seal with Star over Winged and Tailed Sun Disk
Image courtesy Emory Libraries Digitization.
Image courtesy Emory Libraries Digitization.
Image courtesy Emory Libraries Digitization.
ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Stamp Seal with Star over Winged and Tailed Sun Disk

Place FoundNineveh, Iraq, Asia
CultureAssyrian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian Empire
Date8th-late 7th Century BCE
MediumChalcedony
Credit LineCollected by William A. Shelton, funded by John A. Manget
Dimensions13/16 x 1/2 in. (2.1 x 1.3 cm)
Object number1921.169
Exhibition HistoryA Preview of the Collections, Schatten Gallery, February 15 - April 4, 1982
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
Published ReferencesEmory University Museum of Art and Archaeology: A Preview of the Collections (Atlanta: The Museum, 1982), 8.
ProvenanceCollected for Emory University Museum by William Shelton (1875-1959), ca. 1920.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art