<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><pres:item xmlns:pres="http://kulturarvsdata.se/presentation#"><pres:version>1.3.0</pres:version><pres:buildDate>2026-10-11</pres:buildDate><pres:itemLabel xml:lang="en">seal impression, seal</pres:itemLabel><pres:dataQuality>Rådata</pres:dataQuality><pres:id>3400011</pres:id><pres:service>objekt</pres:service><pres:organization xml:lang="en">Statens museer för världskultur - Medelhavsmuseet</pres:organization><pres:organizationShort>SMVK-MM</pres:organizationShort><pres:type xml:lang="en">Föremål</pres:type><pres:entityUri>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3400011</pres:entityUri><pres:idLabel>NM Ant 2068</pres:idLabel><pres:description xml:lang="en">Cylinder seal. Contest: 2 nude heroes, back to back, with long beards, and side curled hair, wearing 3 strand belts, in combat with water buffalo and reversed lion. Between the figures some (?) cuneiform signs. Opaque green quartz orjasper.</pres:description><pres:content>NM Ant 2068, Purchased in Baghdad in 1934, by the then Crown Prince (later King Gustaf VI Adolf), by means donated to the Friends of the National Museum, by General Consul Karl Bergsten., Helen Merrillees catalogue 1995 (Publications?).
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Nine impressions.
Seal impression in Tumba, see below., 25 x 19.5 x 13 mm, slightly concave bores 4 mm., E. Tebelius 18.1. 1996.
Exhibition: Kilsrift till ryttare 1996. Cylinder and stamp seals donated by King Gustavus VI Adolphus of Sweden in 1956 to the Medelhavsmuseet. These came from various sources arranged into three groups Ivc a number from a dealer in Baghdad – these acquisitions which included cylinder and stamp seals in a “collection of antiquities received not less than 36 specimens of Sumerian, old and new Babylonian as well as Assyrian small objects of art and “Applied art”, all of them purchased by H.R.H. the Crown Prince during his visit to Baghdad and the surrounding area, Autumn 1934, through means, which had been put aside for the use of the Nationalmusei Vänner by the Consul-General Karl Bergsten and the Director General Bjorn Prytz. Set of 18 weight-stones of hematite, onyx, chalcedony and other variety of stones, 21 seals and cylinders from different periods as the from Arcadian Sumerian period, around 3500, down to Babylonian, around 500 BC. This collection has been lent to Medelhavsmuseet on "long-term' loan in the 1980s. Series Numbers: MM 1980's NM Nos. 2060-2088; 2287-2293 (with gaps) Iraq Gov.Acq.no. Helen Merrillees., Antonsson 1936, Nationalmusei årsbok, 142-145., Främre Orienten, Främre Orienten - Showcase 09:05., Inköpt i Bagdad 1934 av Gustav VI Adolf.</pres:content><pres:context><pres:event xml:lang="en">Förvärvad</pres:event><pres:nameLabel xml:lang="en">Gustaf VI Adolf</pres:nameLabel></pres:context><pres:context><pres:event xml:lang="en">Brukad</pres:event><pres:timeLabel xml:lang="en">Akkadian, Circa: 2334-2193 BC – Akkadian period, 2334-2193 BC</pres:timeLabel></pres:context><pres:context><pres:event xml:lang="en">Ägd</pres:event><pres:nameLabel xml:lang="en">Nationalmuseum, Stockholm</pres:nameLabel></pres:context><pres:image><pres:mediaType>image/jpeg</pres:mediaType><pres:src type="thumbnail">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3651981/representation</pres:src><pres:src type="lowres">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3651982/representation</pres:src><pres:mediaLicense>http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by</pres:mediaLicense><pres:byline xml:lang="en">Uppgift om fotograf saknas</pres:byline><pres:copyright xml:lang="en">Statens museer för världskultur</pres:copyright></pres:image><pres:references><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3914227</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/3953894</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibitionpart/3953902</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1015117</pres:reference></pres:references><pres:representations><pres:representation format="HTML">http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/html/3400011</pres:representation><pres:representation format="XML">http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/xml/3400011</pres:representation><pres:representation format="RDF">http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/rdf/3400011</pres:representation></pres:representations></pres:item>