Object Title
Cylinder Seal
Measurements
1 x 1.9 cm
Creation Date
1600-1400 BCE
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Rosen
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/18975/cylinder-seal-with-winged-sun-disk-and-lion-attacking-animal?ctx=4210b7a9a951b9c7fd3ddcbf53c70ffe573ac2aa&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years
Provenance Information
Said to be ex Marcopoli Collection, Aleppo, Syria, assembled late 19th Century. Thence by descent. With Jonathan Rosen [Atlantis Antiquities, Ltd.], New York, New York, purchased in Zurich, Switzerland, May 1982.
Exhibition Information
Selected Acquisitions: Asia to America, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, May 8 - August 8, 1987;
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001;
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - 2012;
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 20, 2024 - Present
Publication Information
Michael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 34.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Gifted to museum in 1985.