Selection of 7 impressions from cylinder seals from various periods of Mesopotamian history

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Selection of 7 impressions from cylinder seals from various periods of Mesopotamian history, c. 3000BC-AD399

Seal impression from Uruk period

Seal impression

Seal impression from Akkadian period

Seal impression from Third Dynasty of Ur period

Impression from a cylinder seal of the Old Babylonian period

Neo-Assyrian period impression

Stamp mark from Seleucid period

399 CE

Details

Category:: Classical & Medieval Medicine

Object Number:: 1981-1706

type:: impressions

credit:: Trustees of the British Museum

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