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Octagonal Pyramidal Stamp Seal

Date

about 500 B.C.

Medium

Blue chalcedony

Culture

Near Eastern, Achaemenid (Persian)

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Stamp seal with two rampant lions standing, their heads reversed, over a floral pattern; double exergual line below, which is a zigzag pattern. A tetraskeles "linear device" is in the upper left field; the same device is lightly incised in the lower left field, but that position was evidently rejected. The top of the stamp is broken but enough is preserved to show that it was once pierced for suspension.

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