Cylinder Seal with Pseudo-Hieroglyphs

3000-2649 BCE or modern (Early Dynastic or modern)

0.8 cm 2.5 cm

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This wooden cylinder seal is inscribed with pseudo-hieroglyphic script that is not Egyptian. The unusual coating on the surface of this seal may also indicate modern manufacturing.

Artifact

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23325
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object
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normalized
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provenance
Joseph Abemayor, Cairo, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
language
language
en
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0
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.230

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