Cylinder Seal with a Combat Scene

ca. 911-612 BCE (Neo-Assyrian)

1.3 cm 3 cm

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This seal's imagery features a bearded hero capturing a rampant griffin. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when rolled into clay. Seals were generally used to mark ownership, and they could act as official...

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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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