Cylinder Seal with a Presentation Scene

18th-17th century BCE (Old Syrian)

0.8 cm 1.9 cm

Citation

Syrian seals have a diverse range of imagery drawn from Syria, Egypt, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia. This seal depicts the minor god Isimud (Usmu in Akkadian) standing between a seated deity and a standing winged deity. Isimud is depicted with two faces as a janus-figure. In Sumer...

Artifact

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1789
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.424

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