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SHM 20563 MMLur 290 :: stamp seal

Object description: Cast. Shaft in form of double simplified birds heads with large raised circular eyes and round ridge above them, hole slightly below meeting point of two necks pierced through, shaft widens towards flat round plate. Image on base indefinite.

Data elements

Inventory number

SHM 20563 MMLur 290

Serie nummer

543

MM Lur

290

Object

stamp seal

Country - Findspot

Iran : Asia

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Iran

Place - Findspot

Luristan

Region - Findspot

Lorestan

Material

Bronze; Metal

Material, Swedish

Brons

Acquisition

Bought by Prof. Ture Arne in Iran in 1932

Description

Cast. Shaft in form of double simplified birds heads with large raised circular eyes and round ridge above them, hole slightly below meeting point of two necks pierced through, shaft widens towards flat round plate. Image on base indefinite.

Period

Luristan Iron III

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

800-650 BC

Name - Acquired from

Arne, Ture J:son (1879-05-07 - 1965-08-02), archaeologist

Description: Ture Arne Johnson, born May 7, 1879 in Söderköping, died 2 August 1965, Swedish archaeologist.
PhD in Uppsala in 1914 with the thesis "La Suède et l'Orient, études sur les relations archéologiques de la Suède et de l'Orient pendant l'Age des Vikings". Arne's field of work was mainly the contacts between Scandinavia and the early Russia.
Source - http: collections.smvk.se
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: sv.wikipedia.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org