Stamp seal

Near Eastern, Mesopotamian, Assyrian

Neo-Assyrian

883–612 B.C.

Medium/Technique Orange carnelian

Dimensions Legacy dimension: 17 x 8 mm (base) x 18 h. mm

Credit Line William Francis Warden Fund and funds donated by Mrs. Oric Bates, Mrs. F. Carrington Weems, and Horace L. Mayer

Accession Number65.1638

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsSeals

DescriptionBase: bust of god Sin upon a crescent above lotus flower. Side: winged disk above two bull-men flanking "sacred tree."

Provenance1965, sold by R. Moussa, through Ali Tehranian, Little Falls, NJ, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 10, 1965)