Cylinder Seal with Incised Net Pattern
This cylinder seal is decorated with incised lines that represent netting and organic material. It was possibly used in funerary execration rituals, which were meant to keep harmful forces out of a burial.
Artifact
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id
13963
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| contentType |
contentType
object
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| stage |
stage
normalized
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| provenance |
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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| rightsUri |
rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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| pageCount |
pageCount
0
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| source |
source
import
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.233 |
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