The stamp seal was procured by Sir Alexander Cunningham, who sold it to the British Museum in 1870.

One is a bearded male, wearing a forward-projecting cap bordered with pearls, as well as a diadem, ear-rings and a necklace.

[3] The stamp seal is dated by the British Museum to 300-350 CE, during the Kushano-Sasanian period, and belongs to the area of Sogdia, north of the Oxus.

[3] Livshits (1969) also offered a reading for the Sogdian inscription, which is the one still used by the British Museum:[3] (1) 'yt mydrh cwn ’yn/ztmyc (2) (p) ’nbsn z ’ ’ntyh (or zc ’ntyh, n ’cztyh) This seal is from (of) Indamic Queen of Zacanta Paleographical comparisons also suggests a "rough date" of the 4th century CE, and at any rate before the second half of the 5th century CE.

[3] Livshits (2000) has since reappraised the datation of the stamp seal as well as the translation of the Sogdian legend.