Cylinder Seal with Amurru (?) Ub in Hunting Costume and an Inscription

20th-17th century BCE (Old Babylonian/Isin Larsa)

1.2 cm 2.6 cm

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The scene on this seal depicts a standing figure in short tunic facing a standing goddess with long, flounced robe and horned headdress. There is an inverted crescent in the field between them, at face level. The scene incorporates a cuneiform inscription in three registers. C...

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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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