Tablet Recording a Business Letter with Seal Impressions

ca. 1840-1730 BCE (Assyrian Colony)

4 cm 5.5 cm 2.7 cm

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This thick, rectangular clay tablet is impressed with seals seven times. On the face and top of the tablet, a cylinder seal was rolled, creating a rectangular band the repeats the image of two sphinxes with large eyes seated up on their haunches facing in toward one another, h...

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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Caesarea]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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