Cylinder Seal with a Contest Scene

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

1.4 cm 2.5 cm

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This seal shows three groups of combatants, including a rearing lion attacking a rearing quadruped, a rearing lion flanked by two humans (one wearing a horned crown) or one human and a human-headed bull, and a rearing lion battling a human. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objec...

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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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