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A press-seal, possibly of Indus type, found in Iraq

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

N. Wyatt
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The seal illustrated in the accompanying illustrations (Plate I, 1 and 2; Fig. 1, a to c) was recently brought to my attention by Mrs. Sarah Campbell of Dunstaffnage, whose father, Mr. R. O. Ramsay, discovered it in 1931, while supervising canal-digging on the Latifiya estates, some 40 miles south of Baghdad.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 115 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 3 - 6
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1983

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References

1 The Western Asiatic finds are of course of various shapes. For the bibliography see Mahadevan, I., The Indus script, New Delhi, 1977, 829.Google Scholar

2 For the three types, see: (i) SirMarshall, John, Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus civilization, III, London, 1931Google Scholar, Plates CIII–CIX; (ii) Plate CXI (nos. 327–340) - in the present note Plate I, 3 shows a good example from MacKay, E., Further excavations at Mohenjo-Daro, II, New Delhi, 1937Google Scholar, Plate XCVIII, no. 626; (iii) Marshall, ibid., Plate CX, no. 302 and 304ff.

3 Lutz, H. F., “The Sumerian and anthropology”, American Anthropology, New Series, XXIX, 1927, 205.Google Scholar On the species bos sondaicus see Payne, W. J. A., Cattle production in the tropics, I, London, 1970, 31 and 116.Google Scholar The same type may be portrayed, in a more clearly Harappan style, on the cylinder seal illustrated in our Plate I, 4 (= C. J. Gadd, “Seals of ancient Indian style found at Ur”, Proceedings of the British Academy, XVIII, 1932, Plate I, no. 6, with description on p. 195f.). Gadd characterizes the example as “evidently Indian or under strong Indian influence”. The Indian influence is much less apparent in the present case.Google Scholar

4 See Marshall, , Plate CII, nos. a, b. For examples of seal bosses from Mesopotamian finds, see our Plate I, 5 and 6 (= Gadd, Plate I, nos. 1 and 2).Google Scholar

5 See Gadd, , Plate I, no. 1 right.Google Scholar

6 Woolley, C. L., “Excavations at Ur, II,” Antiquaries Journal, VIII, 1928, 26 and Plate XI, no. 2; Gadd, 193ff.Google Scholar