Cylinder Seal with Figures and Goats

mid 14th-12th century BCE (Middle Assyrian)

1 cm 2.4 cm 1 cm

Citation

This seal depicts two standing figures with their heads and feet in profile and their bodies facing forward. Between them, the men hold goats by the horns. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when rolled into...

Artifact

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260
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object
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normalized
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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0
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.433

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