Cylinder Seal with Standing Figures, Antelope, and Birds

14th-mid 13th century BCE (Late Cypriot)

0.9 cm 1.9 cm

Citation

Cyprus produced cylinder seals only during the late 2nd millennium BCE. These seals combine Syrian and Mesopotamian imagery in a uniquely Cypriot fashion. This seal depicts four standing figures holding feathers, two horned antelope standing on their hind legs, a bird, and a c...

Artifact

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13806
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object
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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0
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.423

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