The Display of Cylinder Seals

Elizabeth Marriott

A cylinder seal to scale

Cylinder seals developed in the Ancient Near East along side cuneiform script

Cuneiform tablet: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boarsca. 3100–2900 B.C.Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Leaping Stag in a LandscapeMesopotamia, Middle Assyrian period (ca. 13th century B.C.) The Morgan Library

Cylinder Seal Impression on a Clay TabletHero Triumphant, Darius InscriptionOriental Institute at the University of Chicago

Cylinder seal: seated figure approached by a goddess leading a worshiperUr III (ca. 2028–2004 B.C.)Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pattern of Two Running Goats, One Above the OtherMesopotamia, Early Dynastic I period (ca. 2900–2750 B.C.)The Morgan Library

The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago

Bilalama Seal and Modern ImpressionExcavated at Tell Asmar in 1931 by theOriental Institute at the University of Chicago

Bilalama Seal and Ancient ImpressionUr III ((ca. 2028–2004 B.C.)Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago