Cylinder Seal with Running Animals

late 4th-early 3rd millennium BCE (Late Uruk-Jemdet Nasr)

2.5 cm 3.1 cm

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In Mesopotamia, the development of writing was accompanied by the invention of the cylindrically shaped seal. As the seal is rolled across a soft surface, the design repeats, and the animals seem to form a continuous procession. On this early example, the creatures, created by...

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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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