Official Seal

AN OFFICIAL SEAL

AUWE 19 1

1. Rectangular stamp. 13+ x 17. Lion (cf. "horse": Doty 1979, p. 196) walking profile right; horizontal anchor above back, arms closest to head.
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●  2/VI/37; royal officer; sale of slave BRM 2 10 [https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-BC-002054] R3 [/hbtin/images/AUWE19/A19_0001_Cl10_R3.png].
→ Publ. Doty 1977, 325, Fig. 16 (R3); Doty 1979, 195, Fig. 1 (R3).
→ Cap. un-qa sa-um-bu-lu! šá LUGAL "stamp seal, seal (σύμβολον) of the king" (McEwan 1982a); cf. un-qa sa?-um/dub?-bu-ur šá LUGAL (Doty 1977, pp. 324–28; 1979), un-qa NUN um-pu-ur šá LUGAL "wohl ἐπιστάτης τοῦ ἐμπορίου?" (Landergott 1983/1984, p. 124).
→ Another impression of this seal (SIS I SU 2) occurs together with a ΚΑΤΑΓΡAΦΙΟΝ tax seal (SIS I SU 18) on an undated bulla (S-3718) excavated in the public archive at Seleucia on the Tigris. Doty (1977, p. 326), followed by Lindström (2003, p. 60), attributed the seal to the chreophýlax (see now, Wallenfels 2015, pp. 7–8).

Wallenfels

Wallenfels, 'Official Seal', Hellenistic Babylonia: Texts, Images, Names, The HBTIN project, 2024 [http://oracc.org/hbtin/Images/AUWE192.0/OfficialSeal/]