2500 BC SUMER SEAL VA243

A cylinder seal, catalogued VA 243 at Berlin's Vorderasiatisches Museum, decorated with stars of six, seven and eight points read in an astronomical or astrological context, dated to roughly 2,500 BC.

The card

• Date — 2,500 BC
• Where — Held at the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin; no excavation findspot recorded. No coordinates are given on the map for this reason.
• Evidence grade — WEB-PHOTO

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