Cylinder Seal: Two Figures with Old Babylonian Inscription
Description
Catalogue description: Cultures Ancient Near Eastern, Syrian Caption: Ancient Near Eastern; Syrian. Cylinder Seal: Two Figures with Old Babylonian Inscription, ca. 18th–17th c. B.C.E.. Hematite, 7/8 x Diam. 3/8 in. (2.3 x 1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1116E.
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A clay seal with geometric figures and cuneiform inscriptions.
The artifact is a clay seal impression featuring distinct geometric figures on the left and a series of cuneiform inscriptions on the right. The composition is simple, with figures that may represent humanoid shapes alongside upright elements. The cuneiform is densely packed beside the figures, suggesting that the seal may have been used for administrative or record-keeping purposes.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1116E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117692 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.