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Seal with beast
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Pakistan › Punjab province › Harappa (place of creation)
- Date
- 3rd millennium BC (3000 - 2001 BC)
- Material and technique
- steatite, glazed
- Dimensions
- 2.3 x 2.3 x 0.8 cm (height x width x depth)
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tool/implement › matrix › seal,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA2009.7
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Further reading
Buchanan, Briggs, Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, ii: The Prehistoric Stamp Seals, P. R. S. Moorey, ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), cat. 235
Ahuja, Naman, ‘Early Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum - Catalogue in progress’, 2016, no. 11.3
Location
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- currently in research collection
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