Cylinder Seal with Figures and Fantastical Animals

mid 17th-mid 11th century BCE (Late Cypriot) Diam: 5/16 in. (0.9 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. The figures in this scene might be performing some unknown ritual or rite. Fantastic creatures are flanked by a figure on...

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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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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.661

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