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Dr Lee's Collection of Cylinder Seals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2014

Brett Thorn  and
Dominique Collon
Brett Thorn
Affiliation:
Buckingham County Museum, Church Street, Aylesbury, Bucks HP20 2QP, bthorn@buckscc.gov.uk
Dominique Collon
Affiliation:
74, Cobbold Road, London W12 9LW, d.p.m@collon.demon.co.uk
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Abstract

Dr Lee was known as a collector of cylinder seals only because six of them were published by Cullimore in 1843. Now twenty seals have been rediscovered in the Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury, and have been registered and recorded. Some of the preliminary drawings made for Cullimore's publication have also survived and have thrown light on the way the seals were recorded for publication in the early 1840s. Here a full catalogue and assessment of Lee's collection is presented, together with evidence for the way seals were recorded for Cullimore's catalogue.

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IRAQ , Volume 75 , 2013 , pp. 119 - 142
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1990

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