Stamp Seal

Unknown artist

Chalcedony | Copper

Penn Museum

A light blue, oval chalcedony bead and a rectangular gray object with an impressed design are shown next to a ruler and a label with the identifier B3794. CBS Register: cone shaped seal in chalcedony, fragment of copper handle in hole. Place of discovery not reported to HVH PBS XIV: A winged disk of the sun over a tree of life. The curved line above the disk is probably an imitation of the head and antennae of the flying beetle. Cone seal with convex face. Blue chalcedony, 17 x 14 mm. The copper wire of the mounting is still inside. Nippur, 1891. B3794 Babylonian Expedition to Nippur II, 1890