Stamp seal

Object Details

• Description

  Round bezel stamp seal in modern silver setting, with ram motif with streamers. Traces of inscription at 2 o'clock and 8 o'clock.

• Provenance

  From 1943-45 to 1980

  Private collector, purchased in Iran. [1]

  From 1980

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of a private collector. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] According to the donor, object was purchased in Iran between 1943 and 1945. See note by the donor dated from November 24, 1980, copy in object folder, Collection Management Office.

  [2] Object was donated in 1980 to the Freer Study Collection, and later transferred to the Permanent Collection in April 1993. See Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Anonymous

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Anonymous gift

• Type

  Tool and Equipment

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  600s, 200s

• Name

  Upton, Joseph M.

• Topic

  Art, Rams, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Ring, Sasanian period (ca. 224 - 651), Lapis lazuli

• Culture

  Iranians, Middle Easterners

• Object Type

  Tools and equipment