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Cylinder seal: ANE.82.1933

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Current Location: In storage

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Description

Cylinder, with two winged figures facing each other across a tree, with sun disk and crescent above

Measurements and weight

Length: 0.0325 m

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Guillemard

Dating

Babylonian
-900 - -701

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Identification numbers

Accession number: ANE.82.1933
Primary reference Number: 88883
Oldadmincategory: O
Oldobjectnumber: WAE.82.1933
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 12 May 2016 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

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