Stamp seal: hunters and goats, rectangular pen (?), Middle Bronze Age, ca. early 2nd millennium B.C., Dilmun, Dilmun, Steatite or chlorite, 0.47 in. (1.19 cm), Stone-Stamp Seals, The earliest stone seals of the Gulf region were made of steatite hardened by firing and often glazed after they were carved. The impression of the hemispherical stamp seal depicted here shows a male figure in the upper field who grasps a caprid by the neck
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Stamp seal, hunters, goats, rectangular pen, Middle Bronze Age, ca, early 2nd millennium B.C, Dilmun, Steatite, chlorite, 0.47, 1.19 cm, Stone-Stamp Seals, earliest, stone, seals, Gulf region, steatite hardened, firing, glazed, carved, impression, hemispherical stamp, seal, depicted, male figure, upper field, grasps, caprid, neck
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