M0008450: Sumerian seal showing votaries approaching the moon god, Sin, c.2400 B.C.

Date:
November 1941
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/73/80
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M0008450: Sumerian seal showing votaries approaching the moon god, Sin, c.2400 B.C. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced September 2020: Sumerian seal showing Votarie being led before the moon god, Sin, circa 2400BC

Description

Reproduction of a Sumerian cylinder seal. The seal belonged to Khaskamer in the reign of Ur-Egur of the 1st dynasty of Ur and is now held by the British Museum (object number 89126). The reproduction is from an unknown publication.

Publication/Creation

November 1941

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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