Stamp seal and modern impression: geometric pattern, Halaf, ca. 5600–5000 B.C., Northern Mesopotamia or Syria, Halaf, Steatite or chlorite, 0.55 x 0.43 x 1.02 in. (1.4 x 1.09 x 2.59 cm), Stone-Stamp Seals, Mesopotamian pendants of the Halaf period are usually of simple, mostly geometric forms. However, this stamp seal appears to represent a hedgehog, an animal that was native to northern Mesopotamia. The stamping surface is decorated with two superimposed grid patterns and a chevron pattern with a central line under the animal's head
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Stamp seal, modern impression, geometric pattern, Halaf, ca, 5600–5000 B.C, Northern Mesopotamia, Syria, Steatite, chlorite, 0.55 x 0.43 1.02, 1.4 1.09 2.59 cm, Stone-Stamp Seals, Mesopotamian pendants, Halaf period, usually, simple, mostly geometric, forms, stamp, represent, hedgehog, animal, native, northern, stamping surface, decorated, two superimposed, grid, patterns, chevron, central line, under, head
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