Cylinder Seal with Fighting Lions and Horned Quadrupeds
This seal is engraved with a contest scene between two lions and two horned quadrupeds. The animals stand on their hind legs. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when rolled into clay. Seals were generally us...
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20737
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object
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normalized
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| provenance |
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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| language |
language
en
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0
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import
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.427 |
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