File:Egyptian - Cylinder Seal - Walters 42168.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file (1,800 × 519 pixels, file size: 536 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Cylinder Seal   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Anonymous (Egypt)Unknown author
Title
Cylinder Seal
Description
English: This cylinder seal is of the type placed in burials. It shows a woman seated before an offering table. The images surrounding her indicate her name in very early hieroglyphs, from before the language and writing system had been fully developed.
Date between circa 3100 and circa 2900 BC (Archaic Greece
era QS:P2348,Q271834
)
Medium soapstone
medium QS:P186,Q707896
Dimensions height: 1.2 cm (0.5 in); diameter: 1.1 cm (0.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,1.27U174728
dimensions QS:P2386,1.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
42.168
Place of creation north Italy
Object history
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930
Inscriptions [Inscription]
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
Permission
(Reusing this file)

Licensing

[edit]
Object
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.


You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
Photograph
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Attribution: Walters Art Museum
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current04:22, 26 March 2012Thumbnail for version as of 04:22, 26 March 20121,800 × 519 (536 KB)File Upload Bot (Kaldari) (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Walters Art Museum artwork |artist = Egyptian |title = ''Cylinder Seal'' |description = {{en|This cylinder seal is of the type placed in burials. It shows a woman seated before an offering table. The ...

The following page uses this file:

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file: