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LAPIS LAZULI FROM THE EAST: A STAMP SEAL IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM DOMINIQUE COLLON ABSTRACT The article deals with the interpretation of two images on the lapis lazuli stamp seal from the Western Asiatic Department of Antiquities in the British Museum. The author compares the images with scenes on Shahdad "standard", on bifacial disc from eastern Iran and on fragments of steatite vases from Louvre and the British Museum, and comes to the conclusion that the figure with a sidelock is a male personage, the other one is a female. Links with the art of south-eastern Iran put the stamp seal in the context of the Trans-Elamite culture, about 2550-2250 B.C. I am happy to have been asked to contribute to a volume in memory of Edith Porada, the "grande dame" of seals, in general and cylinder seals in particular. The seal I have chosen to discuss was acquired in 1992 by the Western Asiatic Department of Antiquities in the British Museum through transfer from the De- partment of Oriental Antiquities where it had been for a considerable number of years (Fig. 1). I provided Edith Porada with an impression of the seal because I knew she would be
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Published: Jan 1, 1999
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