Cylinder Seal with a Contest Scene and an Inscription

ca. 1000-539 BCE (Neo-Babylonian or Neo-Assyrian)

0.9 cm 1.5 cm

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This seal depicts a hero standing in a "Master of Animals" pose. He is fighting two rearing winged beasts, grasping one in each hand. An inscription has been incorporated into the scene. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave rais...

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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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