Cylinder Seal with Two Figures and Inscriptons

20th-17th century BCE (Old Babylonian/Isin Larsa)

1.2 cm 2.4 cm

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The depicted scene features a man in a short tunic. He faces a standing deity with a horned crown and long flounced robe, with both arms raised. The scene also incorporates a cuneiform inscription in four registers. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (int...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.
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