Cylinder Seal with an Animal Contest Scene and an Inscription

ca. 2000-1750 BCE (Old Babylonian or Old Assyrian Trading Colony) Citation Source image

This scene depicts a central motif of crossed lions, their heads back-to-back with an inverted crescent in the field between them. Each lion faces a strange, horned quadruped (re-cut?) that rears up on its hind legs. Behind the horned quadrupeds is a cuneiform inscription in t...

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17171
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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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en
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8
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