IDENTIFIERS
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id:	124865
accession number:	CG 1065

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Devices on the broad sides: (a) man advancing towards altar holding indistinct object (branch or rhyton?); (b) goddess with raised arms standing frontally wearing elaborate flounced dress, palm-frond(?) in field.  Devices on narrow sides: © star and crescent; (d) palm-frond.  the goddess of side (b) shows ancient recutting, with symbols or attributes erased by scratching the surface beside her left hand and above her right arm; her right arm (originally bent, with the hand to the breast) has also been recut in antiquity to change the goddess into her present hieratic pose; possibly originally also framed by lines.
title:	sealstone

NOTES
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type: history note
value: given by the trustees of the Wellcome Institute


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/124865





CATEGORIES
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category: engraved gems

DATING
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creation date:	1100 - 1000
creation date earliest:	1100
creation date latest:	1000
culture:	11th Century BC

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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value: 22

value: 28.5



CITATIONS
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Classical Gems, Ancient and Modern Intaglios and Cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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