Cylinder Seal with a Contest Scene
This contest scene depicts a bull creature in a "Master of Animals" pose, holding a deer and possibly another bull. Figures and lions also participate in the fight. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when ro...
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22684
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object
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normalized
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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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CC0
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en
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1
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import
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.749_Fnt_BW_H70.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.749_Fnt_BW_H70.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.749_Fnt_BW_H70.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.749 |
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