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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Brocade Style Cylinder with Geometric Decoration
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Brocade Style Cylinder with Geometric Decoration

AAT Object Form/Functioncylinder seals
Place CreatedAsia
CultureSumerian
PeriodEarly Dynastic Period I
Date2900-2750 BCE
MediumLimestone
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Rosen
Dimensions9/16 x 1 5/16 in. (1.4 x 3.3 cm)
Object number1985.022.001
Exhibition HistorySelected Acquisitions: Asia to America, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, May 8 - August 8, 1987
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - 2012
Published ReferencesMichael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum ,1996), 34.
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.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art