Cylinder Seal And 6 Casts
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1900
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Gabriel Oussani
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVINCIAL BABYLONIAN CA 19-18TH CENT BCE
label: Notes
content: From card: Hematite. Two tiers in antipodal position; gods (ramman and Shala?); crescent on column, libra and other symbols. One pair of casts presented to the Museum of the Catholic University, September 6, 1918.
label: Notes
content: Original catalog card references this seal as being made of Hematite, however, the stone appears to have micaceous or mica-like crystals (which hematite would not). More likely to be a phyllosilicate mineral like chlorite or perhaps micaceous serpentine
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Hillah, Babil Governorate (Babylon Province), Iraq, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 037297
label: USNM Number
content: A207920-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Seal